Summary
The remote host is missing an update to gs-esp / gs-gpl announced via advisory DSA 1510-1.
Solution
https://secure1.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=DSA%201510-1
Insight
Chris Evans discovered a buffer overflow in the color space handling code of the Ghostscript PostScript/PDF interpreter, which might result in the execution of arbitrary code if a user is tricked into processing a malformed file.
For the stable distribution (etch), this problem has been fixed in version 8.54.dfsg.1-5etch1 of gs-gpl and 8.15.3.dfsg.1-1etch1 of gs-esp.
For the old stable distribution (sarge), this problem has been fixed in version 8.01-6 of gs-gpl and 7.07.1-9sarge1 of gs-esp.
The unstable distribution (sid) will be fixed soon.
We recommend that you upgrade your gs-esp and gs-gpl packages.
Severity
Classification
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CVE CVE-2008-0411 -
CVSS Base Score: 6.8
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
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