Test ID:	1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.60541
Category:	Fedora Local Security Checks
Title:	Fedora Core 8 FEDORA-2008-1998 (ghostscript)
Summary:	NOSUMMARY
Description:	Description: The remote host is missing an update to ghostscript announced via advisory FEDORA-2008-1998. 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). This update also restores JPEG2000 support. ChangeLog: * Wed Feb 27 2008 Tim Waugh 8.61-8 - Applied patch to fix CVE-2008-0411 (bug #431536). * Fri Feb 22 2008 Tim Waugh 8.61-7 - Build with jasper again (bug #433897). Build requires jasper-devel, and a patch to remove jas_set_error_cb reference. * Mon Jan 28 2008 Tim Waugh 8.61-6 - Don't build with jasper support. - Remove bundled libraries. References: [ 1 ] Bug #431536 - CVE-2008-0411 ghostscript: stack-based buffer overflow in .seticcspace operator https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=431536 Solution: Apply the appropriate updates. 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/. https://secure1.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=FEDORA-2008-1998 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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