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Ubuntu Security Notice USN-3-1 October 27, 2004
GhostScript utility script vulnerabilities
CAN-2004-0967
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A security issue affects the following Ubuntu releases:
Ubuntu 4.10 (Warty Warthog)
The following packages are affected:
gs-common
The problem can be corrected by upgrading the affected package to
version 0.3.6ubuntu1.1. In general, a standard system upgrade is
sufficient to effect the necessary changes.
Details follow:
Recently, Trustix Secure Linux discovered some vulnerabilities in the
gs-common package. The utilities "pv.sh" and "ps2epsi" created
temporary files in an insecure way, which allowed a symlink attack to
create or overwrite arbitrary files with the privileges of the user
invoking the program.
Source archives:
http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/g/gs-common/gs-common_0.3.6ubuntu1.1.dsc
Size/MD5: 589 3506426ff7ecd78fea5e254dbf694b35
http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/g/gs-common/gs-common_0.3.6ubuntu1.1.tar.gz
Size/MD5: 31596 060a50ce728aedeb61d6b17be30d2e5d
Architecture independent packages:
http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/g/gs-common/gs-common_0.3.6ubuntu1.1_all.deb
Size/MD5: 45434 8ca2afdfe91cd67777f44f767489a705
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