Fedora alert FEDORA-2008-2084 (ghostscript)

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[SECURITY] Fedora 7 Update: ghostscript-8.15.4-4.fc7
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Thu, 06 Mar 2008 16:39:31 +0000
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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2008-2084
2008-03-06 16:15:19
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Name        : ghostscript
Product     : Fedora 7
Version     : 8.15.4
Release     : 4.fc7
URL         : http://www.cups.org/espgs/
Summary     : A PostScript(TM) interpreter and renderer.
Description :
Ghostscript is a set of software that provides a PostScript(TM)
interpreter, a set of C procedures (the Ghostscript library, which
implements the graphics capabilities in the PostScript language) and
an interpreter for Portable Document Format (PDF) files. Ghostscript
translates PostScript code into many common, bitmapped formats, like
those understood by your printer or screen. Ghostscript is normally
used to display PostScript files and to print PostScript files to
non-PostScript printers.

If you need to display PostScript files or print them to
non-PostScript printers, you should install ghostscript. If you
install ghostscript, you also need to install the ghostscript-fonts
package.

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Update Information:

This update contains a back-ported fix for a security issue that allows
malicious PostScript input files to cause a stack-based buffer overflow
(CVE-2008-0411).
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ChangeLog:

* Wed Feb 27 2008 Tim Waugh <twaugh@redhat.com> 8.15.4-4
- Applied patch to fix CVE-2008-0411 (bug #431536).
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #431536 - CVE-2008-0411 ghostscript: stack-based buffer overflow in .seticcspace
operator
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=431536
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use 
su -c 'yum update ghostscript' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",
available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.

All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key.  More details on the
GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at
http://fedoraproject.org/keys
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