rPath alert rPSA-2009-0050-1 (ghostscript)

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rPSA-2009-0050-1 ghostscript 
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rPath Security Advisory: 2009-0050-1
Published: 2009-03-19
Products:
    rPath Linux 2

Rating: Minor
Exposure Level Classification:
    Indirect Deterministic Vulnerability
Updated Versions:
    ghostscript=conary.rpath.com@rpl:devel/8.61-2.1-1

rPath Issue Tracking System:
    https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-2991

References:
    http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-0583
    http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-0584

Description:
    Previous versions of Ghostscript are potentially vulnerable to
    context-dependent attacks via integer overflows and missing upper
    bounds checks in Ghostscript's ICC library causing application
    crashes or even arbitrary code execution.

http://wiki.rpath.com/Advisories:rPSA-2009-0050

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