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TITLE:
SUSE update for ghostscript

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA50662

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RELEASE DATE:
2012-09-20

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DESCRIPTION:
SUSE has issued an update for ghostscript. This fixes a
vulnerability, which can be exploited by malicious people to
potentially compromise a user's system.

The vulnerability is caused due to an integer underflow error in
icclib (icc.c) when handling ICC profiles and can be exploited to
cause a heap-based buffer overflow by a specially crafted ICC profile
for images embedded in e.g. a postscript or PDF file.

Successful exploitation may allow execution of arbitrary code, but
requires tricking a user into opening a malicious file.

SOLUTION:
Apply updated packages via the zypper package manager.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Red Hat credits Marc Schönefeld.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
SUSE-SU-2012:1222-1:
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-09/msg00031.html

Red hat Bug#854227:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=854227

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