PT-2009-2149 · Artifex+1 · Ghostscript+1

Jan Lieskovsky · Publicado 2009-04-08 · Atualizado 2018-10-11 · CVE-2008-6679

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

5.0

Média

Vetor base

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Ghostscript versions 8.62 and possibly other versions

Description A buffer overflow issue exists in the BaseFont writer module, which can be triggered by a crafted Postscript file. This issue may cause a denial of service, leading to a crash of the ps2pdf component, and potentially allow the execution of arbitrary code.

Recommendations For Ghostscript version 8.62, consider disabling the BaseFont writer module as a temporary workaround until a patch is available. At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

DoS

Buffer Overflow

Enumeração de Fraquezas

CWE-119

Identificadores relacionados

CVE-2008-6679

DSA-2080-1

RHSA-2009:0421

RHSA-2009_0421

Produtos afetados

Ghostscript

Red Hat

Referências · 34

• http://mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:095 · Aviso do Fabricante
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009:0421 · Nota
• http://secunia.com/advisories/34667 · Nota
• http://osvdb.org/53492 · Nota
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-6679 · Nota de Segurança
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=493442 · Nota
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/attachment.cgi?id=337747 · Nota
• https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2009-0792 · Nota
• https://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2015-06205 · Nota de Segurança
• https://redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-April/msg00460.html · Aviso do Fabricante
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/757-1 · Aviso do Fabricante
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=493445 · Nota
• http://vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/1708 · Nota
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=229174 · Nota
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10019 · Nota