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Fedora alert FEDORA-2012-13839 (ghostscript)

From:  updates@fedoraproject.org
To:  package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org
Subject:  [SECURITY] Fedora 16 Update: ghostscript-9.05-2.fc16
Date:  Fri, 28 Sep 2012 23:55:57 +0000
Message-ID:  <20120928235559.8A1E020AD8@bastion01.phx2.fedoraproject.org>
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-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2012-13839 2012-09-12 00:06:18 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name : ghostscript Product : Fedora 16 Version : 9.05 Release : 2.fc16 URL : http://www.ghostscript.com/ Summary : A PostScript interpreter and renderer Description : Ghostscript is a set of software that provides a PostScript 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. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Update Information: This update removes some bundled libraries, notably icclib. This avoids security issue CVE-2012-4405. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ChangeLog: * Tue Sep 11 2012 Tim Waugh <twaugh@redhat.com> 9.05-2 - Removed more bundled packages (bug #816747). In particular, icclib is no longer bundled (bug #856060, CVE-2012-4405). * Thu Feb 9 2012 Tim Waugh <twaugh@redhat.com> - Avoid mixed tabs and spaces in spec file. * Thu Feb 9 2012 Tim Waugh <twaugh@redhat.com> 9.05-1 - 9.05. * Fri Jan 6 2012 Tim Waugh <twaugh@redhat.com> 9.04-9 - Use %_cups_serverbin macro. * Fri Jan 6 2012 Tim Waugh <twaugh@redhat.com> 9.04-8 - Rebuilt for GCC 4.7. * Tue Nov 8 2011 Tim Waugh <twaugh@redhat.com> 9.04-7 - Applied fix for type 1 font copying code SEAC scanner (bug #728710). * Mon Nov 7 2011 Tim Waugh <twaugh@redhat.com> 9.04-6 - Rebuilt for new libpng. * Tue Nov 1 2011 Tim Waugh <twaugh@redhat.com> 9.04-5 - Applied upstream fix for skipping "cached" outline glyphs (bug #742349). * Wed Aug 31 2011 Tim Waugh <twaugh@redhat.com> 9.04-4 - Fixed typo (EXTRAFLAGS -> EXTRACFLAGS). -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- References: [ 1 ] Bug #854227 - CVE-2012-4405 ghostscript, argyllcms: Array index error leading to heap-based bufer OOB write https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=854227 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 https://fedoraproject.org/keys -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ package-announce mailing list package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/package-...


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