Security update for ghostscript

SUSE Security Update: Security update for ghostscript
Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2012:0531-1
Rating: low
References: #545201 #635004 #649207
Affected Products:
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP4
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10 SP4
  • SLE SDK 10 SP4

  • An update that contains security fixes can now be installed.

    Description:


    This update of ghostscript fixes two security issues:

    * CVE-2009-3743: Off-by-one error in the TrueType
    bytecode interpreter in Ghostscript in SUSE Linux
    Enterprise 10 and 11 products allows remote attackers to
    cause a denial of service (heap memory corruption) via a
    malformed TrueType font in a document.
    * CVE-2010-4054: The gs_type2_interpret function in
    Ghostscript allows remote attackers to cause a denial of
    service (incorrect pointer dereference and application
    crash) via crafted font data in a compressed data stream.

    Package List:

    • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP4 (i586 ia64 ppc s390x x86_64):
    • ghostscript-fonts-other-8.15.4-16.26.1
    • ghostscript-fonts-rus-8.15.4-16.26.1
    • ghostscript-fonts-std-8.15.4-16.26.1
    • ghostscript-library-8.15.4-16.26.1
    • ghostscript-omni-8.15.4-16.26.1
    • ghostscript-x11-8.15.4-16.26.1
    • libgimpprint-4.2.7-62.26.1
    • libgimpprint-devel-4.2.7-62.26.1
    • SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10 SP4 (i586 x86_64):
    • ghostscript-fonts-other-8.15.4-16.26.1
    • ghostscript-fonts-std-8.15.4-16.26.1
    • ghostscript-library-8.15.4-16.26.1
    • ghostscript-x11-8.15.4-16.26.1
    • libgimpprint-4.2.7-62.26.1
    • SLE SDK 10 SP4 (i586 ia64 ppc s390x x86_64):
    • ghostscript-fonts-rus-8.15.4-16.26.1
    • ghostscript-omni-8.15.4-16.26.1
    • libgimpprint-devel-4.2.7-62.26.1

    References:

    • https://bugzilla.novell.com/545201
    • https://bugzilla.novell.com/635004
    • https://bugzilla.novell.com/649207
    • http://download.suse.com/patch/finder/?keywords=ed33b07c67b3e3c685b564c2b6d267ec