Bug 493445 (CVE-2008-6679) - CVE-2008-6679 ghostscript: Buffer overflow in BaseFont writer module for pdfwrite device
Summary: CVE-2008-6679 ghostscript: Buffer overflow in BaseFont writer module for pdfw...
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2008-6679
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 480775 491857 491858 495915 495916
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2009-04-01 19:16 UTC by Jan Lieskovsky
Modified: 2019-09-29 12:29 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2010-12-23 22:50:40 UTC
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Attachments (Terms of Use)
PoC proving presence of the flaw (31.95 KB, image/x-eps)
2009-04-01 19:23 UTC, Jan Lieskovsky 		no flags Details
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System ID Private Priority Status Summary Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2009:0421 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Moderate: ghostscript security update 2009-04-14 17:54:02 UTC

Comment 1 Jan Lieskovsky 2009-04-01 19:23:32 UTC 
Created attachment 337627 [details]
PoC proving presence of the flaw
Comment 2 Jan Lieskovsky 2009-04-01 19:27:23 UTC 
A buffer overflow flaw was found in Ghostscript's BaseFont writer module
for pdfwrite device. An attacker could create a specially-crafted Postscript file
which could cause ps2pdf to crash, or, potentially execute arbitrary
code, when ps2pdf was used to convert it to equivalent PDF file.

References:
http://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=690211
http://svn.ghostscript.com/viewvc?view=rev&sortby=rev&revision=9304
Comment 4 Jan Lieskovsky 2009-04-09 08:58:13 UTC 
Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures assigned an identifier CVE-2008-6679 to
the following vulnerability:

Buffer overflow in the BaseFont writer module in Ghostscript 8.62, and
possibly other versions, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of
service (ps2pdf crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a
crafted Postscript file.
Comment 5 errata-xmlrpc 2009-04-14 17:54:11 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5

Via RHSA-2009:0421 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-0421.html
Comment 7 Fedora Update System 2009-04-15 17:11:09 UTC 
ghostscript-8.63-3.fc9 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 9.
http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/ghostscript-8.63-3.fc9
Comment 8 Fedora Update System 2009-04-15 21:49:28 UTC 
ghostscript-8.63-6.fc10 has been pushed to the Fedora 10 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
Comment 9 Fedora Update System 2009-04-15 21:50:01 UTC 
ghostscript-8.63-3.fc9 has been pushed to the Fedora 9 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
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