Summary
The remote host is missing an update to ghostscript announced via advisory DSA 2093-1.
Solution
https://secure1.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=DSA%202093-1
Insight
Two security issues have been discovered in Ghostscript, the GPL PostScript/PDF interpreter. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems:
CVE-2009-4897
It was discovered a buffer overflow that allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service via a crafted PDF document containing a long name.
CVE-2010-1628
Dan Rosenberg discovered that ghostscript incorrectly handled certain recursive Postscript files. An attacker could execute arbitrary code via a PostScript file containing unlimited recursive procedure invocations, which trigger memory corruption in the stack of the interpreter.
For the stable distribution (lenny), these problems have been fixed in version 8.62.dfsg.1-3.2lenny5
For the testing distribution (squeeze) and the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in version 8.71~dfsg2-4
We recommend that you upgrade your ghostscript package.
Severity
Classification
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CVE CVE-2009-4897, CVE-2010-1628 -
CVSS Base Score: 9.3
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
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