[SECURITY] Fedora 9 Update: ghostscript-8.63-3.fc9

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2009-3710
2009-04-15 21:11:44.084189
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Name        : ghostscript
Product     : Fedora 9
Version     : 8.63
Release     : 3.fc9
URL         : http://www.ghostscript.com/
Summary     : A PostScript(TM) interpreter and renderer.
Description :
Ghostscript is a set of software that provides a PostScript(TM)
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.

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Update Information:

This update fixes several security flaws: CVE-2009-0792 (multiple integer
overflows and missing upper-bounds checks in icclib), CVE-2009-0196 (missing
boundary check in jbig2dec library), and CVE-2008-6679 (buffer overflow in
pdfwrite device).
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ChangeLog:

* Wed Apr 15 2009 Tim Waugh <twaugh at redhat.com> 8.63-3
- Applied patch to fix CVE-2009-0792 (bug #491853).
- Applied patch to fix CVE-2009-0196 (bug #493379).
- Applied patch to fix CVE-2008-6679 (bug #493445).
* Fri Mar 20 2009 Tim Waugh <twaugh at redhat.com> 8.63-2
- Applied patch to fix CVE-2009-0583 (bug #487742) and CVE-2009-0584
  (bug #487744).
* Mon Aug  4 2008 Tim Waugh <twaugh at redhat.com> 8.63-1
- 8.63.  No longer need r8591 or incomplete-ccittfax patches.
- Compile without strict aliasing opts due to warnings across several
  files.
- Don't run autogen.sh for main package, just for ijs which doesn't
  ship with a configure script.
* Mon Jun 23 2008 Tim Waugh <twaugh at redhat.com> 8.62-4
- Applied patch to work around bug #229174.
- Applied patch from upstream to fix box_fill_path for shfill (bug #452348).
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #493445 - CVE-2008-6679 ghostscript: Buffer overflow in BaseFont writer module for pdfwrite defice
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=493445
  [ 2 ] Bug #493379 - CVE-2009-0196 ghostscript: Missing boundary check in Ghostscript's jbig2dec library
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=493379
  [ 3 ] Bug #491853 - CVE-2009-0792 ghostscript, argyllcms: Incomplete fix for CVE-2009-0583
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=491853
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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/.

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