[El-errata] ELSA-2012-0095 Moderate: Oracle Linux 5 ghostscript security update

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Fri Feb 3 18:53:20 PST 2012


Oracle Linux Security Advisory ELSA-2012-0095

https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0095.html

The following updated rpms for Oracle Linux 5 have been uploaded to the 
Unbreakable Linux Network:

i386:
ghostscript-8.70-6.el5_7.6.i386.rpm
ghostscript-devel-8.70-6.el5_7.6.i386.rpm
ghostscript-gtk-8.70-6.el5_7.6.i386.rpm

x86_64:
ghostscript-8.70-6.el5_7.6.i386.rpm
ghostscript-8.70-6.el5_7.6.x86_64.rpm
ghostscript-devel-8.70-6.el5_7.6.i386.rpm
ghostscript-devel-8.70-6.el5_7.6.x86_64.rpm
ghostscript-gtk-8.70-6.el5_7.6.x86_64.rpm

ia64:
ghostscript-8.70-6.el5_7.6.ia64.rpm
ghostscript-devel-8.70-6.el5_7.6.ia64.rpm
ghostscript-gtk-8.70-6.el5_7.6.ia64.rpm


SRPMS:
http://oss.oracle.com/ol5/SRPMS-updates/ghostscript-8.70-6.el5_7.6.src.rpm


Description of changes:

[8.70-6:.6]
- Applied upstream fix to last patch (CVE-2010-4054, bug #646086).

[8.70-6:.5]
- Applied patch to prevent null pointer dereference (CVE-2010-4054,
   bug #646086).

[8.70-6:.4]
- Applied patch to avoid reading initialization files from CWD
   (CVE-2010-2055, bug #599564).
- Applied patch to prevent integer underflow in TrueType bytecode
   interpreter (CVE-2009-3743, bug #627902).

[8.70-6:.3]
- Fixed character spacing problems using backported patch (bug #688996).
- Match landscape page sizes when writing PXL (bug #692165).






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