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Test ID:1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.60459
Category:Mandrake Local Security Checks
Title:Mandrake Security Advisory MDVSA-2008:055 (ghostscript)
Summary:NOSUMMARY
Description:Description:

The remote host is missing an update to ghostscript
announced via advisory MDVSA-2008:055.

Chris Evans found a buffer overflow condition in Ghostscript, which can
lead to arbitrary code execution as the user running any application
using it to process a maliciously crafted Postscript file.

The updated packages have been patched to prevent this issue.

Affected: 2007.0, 2007.1, 2008.0, Corporate 3.0, Corporate 4.0

Solution:
To upgrade automatically use MandrakeUpdate or urpmi. The verification
of md5 checksums and GPG signatures is performed automatically for you.

https://secure1.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=MDVSA-2008:055

Risk factor : High

CVSS Score:
6.8

Cross-Ref: Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2008-0411
BugTraq ID: 28017
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/28017
Bugtraq: 20080228 Ghostscript buffer overflow (Google Search)
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/488946/100/0/threaded
Bugtraq: 20080228 rPSA-2008-0082-1 espgs (Google Search)
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/488932/100/0/threaded
Debian Security Information: DSA-1510 (Google Search)
http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1510
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-March/msg00085.html
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200803-14.xml
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:055
http://scary.beasts.org/security/CESA-2008-001.html
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9557
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0155.html
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1019511
http://secunia.com/advisories/29101
http://secunia.com/advisories/29103
http://secunia.com/advisories/29112
http://secunia.com/advisories/29135
http://secunia.com/advisories/29147
http://secunia.com/advisories/29154
http://secunia.com/advisories/29169
http://secunia.com/advisories/29196
http://secunia.com/advisories/29314
http://secunia.com/advisories/29768
http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2008&m=slackware-security.370633
SuSE Security Announcement: SUSE-SA:2008:010 (Google Search)
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-02/msg00009.html
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-599-1
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0693/references
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