Summary
The remote host is missing updates announced in
advisory GLSA 200410-18.
Solution
Ghostscript users on all architectures except PPC should upgrade to the latest version:
# emerge sync
# emerge -pv '>=app-text/ghostscript-7.07.1-r7'
# emerge '>=app-text/ghostscript-7.07.1-r7'
Ghostscript users on the PPC architecture should upgrade to the latest stable version on their architecture:
# emerge sync
# emerge -pv '>=app-text/ghostscript-7.05.6-r2'
# emerge '>=app-text/ghostscript-7.05.6-r2'
http://www.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=GLSA%20200410-18 http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=66357
Insight
Multiple scripts in the Ghostscript package are vulnerable to symlink attacks, potentially allowing a local user to overwrite arbitrary files with the rights of the user running the script.
Severity
Classification
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CVE CVE-2004-0967 -
CVSS Base Score: 7.2
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
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