__________________________________________________________ The U.S. Department of Energy Computer Incident Advisory Capability ___ __ __ _ ___ / | /_\ / \___ __|__ / \ \___ __________________________________________________________ INFORMATION BULLETIN Ghostscript Vulnerability [Security Focus 28017] February 27, 2008 19:00 GMT Number S-208 ______________________________________________________________________________ PROBLEM: Ghostscript is prone to an unspecified buffer-overflow vulnerability because it fails to perform adequate boundary checks on user-supplied input. PLATFORM: Ghostscript Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 (sarge), 4.0 (etch) DAMAGE: Remote execution of arbitrary code. SOLUTION: Upgrade to the appropriate version ______________________________________________________________________________ VULNERABILITY The risk is MEDIUM. Successfully exploiting this issue may ASSESSMENT: allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code in the context of the application. Failed exploit attempts will cause denial-of-service conditions. ______________________________________________________________________________ LINKS: CIAC BULLETIN: http://www.ciac.org/ciac/bulletins/s-208.shtml ORIGINAL BULLETIN: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/28017/discuss ADDITIONAL LINK: http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1510 CVE: http://www.cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name= CVE-2008-0411 ______________________________________________________________________________ [***** Start Security Focus 28017 *****] Ghostscript Unspecified Buffer Overflow Vulnerability Ghostscript is prone to an unspecified buffer-overflow vulnerability because it fails to perform adequate boundary checks on user-supplied input. Successfully exploiting this issue may allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code in the context of the application. Failed exploit attempts will cause denial-of-service conditions. Bugtraq ID: 28017 Class: Boundary Condition Error CVE: CVE-2008-0411 Remote: Yes Local: No Published: Feb 27 2008 12:00AM Updated: Feb 27 2008 05:02PM Credit: Chris Evans discovered this issue. Vulnerable: Ghostscript Ghostscript 0 + Debian Linux 3.1 sparc + Debian Linux 3.1 s/390 + Debian Linux 3.1 ppc + Debian Linux 3.1 mipsel + Debian Linux 3.1 mips + Debian Linux 3.1 m68k + Debian Linux 3.1 ia-64 + Debian Linux 3.1 ia-32 + Debian Linux 3.1 hppa + Debian Linux 3.1 arm + Debian Linux 3.1 amd64 + Debian Linux 3.1 alpha + Debian Linux 3.1 + Debian Linux 4.0 sparc + Debian Linux 4.0 s/390 + Debian Linux 4.0 powerpc + Debian Linux 4.0 mipsel + Debian Linux 4.0 mips + Debian Linux 4.0 m68k + Debian Linux 4.0 ia-64 + Debian Linux 4.0 ia-32 + Debian Linux 4.0 hppa + Debian Linux 4.0 arm + Debian Linux 4.0 amd64 + Debian Linux 4.0 alpha + Debian Linux 4.0 [***** End Security Focus 28017 *****] _______________________________________________________________________________ CIAC wishes to acknowledge the contributions of Security Focus for the information contained in this bulletin. _______________________________________________________________________________ CIAC, the Computer Incident Advisory Capability, is the computer security incident response team for the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and the emergency backup response team for the National Institutes of Health (NIH). 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