Fedora 12 Update: ghostscript-8.70-2.fc12

[updates at fedoraproject.org]

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2010-0327
2010-01-08 19:38:55
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Name        : ghostscript
Product     : Fedora 12
Version     : 8.70
Release     : 2.fc12
URL         : http://www.ghostscript.com/
Summary     : A PostScript interpreter and renderer.
Description :
Ghostscript is a set of software that provides a PostScript
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:

Fixed debugging output from CUPS raster driver (CVE-2009-4270) and hardened
ghostscript's debugging output functions.
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ChangeLog:

* Thu Dec 24 2009 Tim Waugh <twaugh at redhat.com> 8.70-2
- Fix debugging output from gdevcups (CVE-2009-4270, bug #540760).
- Harden ghostscript's debugging output functions (bug #540760).
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #540760 - CVE-2009-4270 ghostscript buffer overflow in cups output driver
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=540760
  [ 2 ] Bug #550852 - pstoraster fails on signal 6, can't print to HP PSC1610
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=550852
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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/.

All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key.  More details on the
GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at
http://fedoraproject.org/keys
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