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Mandriva update for ghostscript Advisory Available in German 

Secunia Advisory: SA29169  
Release Date: 2008-02-29

Critical:
Highly critical
Impact: System access
Where: From remote
Solution Status: Vendor Patch

OS:Mandriva Linux 2007.0


CVE reference:CVE-2008-0411 (Secunia mirror)

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Description:
Mandriva has issued an update for ghostscript. This fixes a vulnerability, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's system.

For more information:
SA29103

Solution:
Apply updated packages.

-- Mandriva Linux 2007 --

adc368d980c87e91a980e485fb4e354d 2007.0/i586/ghostscript-8.15-47.1mdv2007.0.i586.rpm
f46e26b01e4680e08df41f74aeb72f74 2007.0/i586/ghostscript-X-8.15-47.1mdv2007.0.i586.rpm
868b81c842717472ee1c6b3e968b9299 2007.0/i586/ghostscript-common-8.15-47.1mdv2007.0.i586.rpm
59e54a2acbba194ef3e322db75fb3eae 2007.0/i586/ghostscript-dvipdf-8.15-47.1mdv2007.0.i586.rpm
03393c9564dfe104169618f8132e76c7 2007.0/i586/ghostscript-module-X-8.15-47.1mdv2007.0.i586.rpm
476b2b85012f5671577f691981b70cb6 2007.0/i586/libgs8-8.15-47.1mdv2007.0.i586.rpm
edaca05744d4e3e06ece218f096d318b 2007.0/i586/libgs8-devel-8.15-47.1mdv2007.0.i586.rpm
4f3095b54b404cb51a351b8fd36a58c6 2007.0/i586/libijs1-0.35-47.1mdv2007.0.i586.rpm
4fc99d3d1365a0f64e8828c0389396e2 2007.0/i586/libijs1-devel-0.35-47.1mdv2007.0.i586.rpm
e87895f43a658ff693dd890f70cac645 2007.0/SRPMS/ghostscript-8.15-47.1mdv2007.0.src.rpm

-- Mandriva Linux 2007/X86_64 --

0258f184c3bec2d9361a8ef20def2603 2007.0/x86_64/ghostscript-8.15-47.1mdv2007.0.x86_64.rpm
ecd4058e54b39c09ec7c5d4ab7cd8e6b 2007.0/x86_64/ghostscript-X-8.15-47.1mdv2007.0.x86_64.rpm
cc0f588e9b3abbed1f04296410361ad2 2007.0/x86_64/ghostscript-common-8.15-47.1mdv2007.0.x86_64.rpm
d3a23bc6a83a50a04336757f856df761 2007.0/x86_64/ghostscript-dvipdf-8.15-47.1mdv2007.0.x86_64.rpm
916ea2a068afaf69a8dcb182ae409098 2007.0/x86_64/ghostscript-module-X-8.15-47.1mdv2007.0.x86_64.rpm
ab38b291e058f0fe93b35d647845d696 2007.0/x86_64/lib64gs8-8.15-47.1mdv2007.0.x86_64.rpm
35c21066635384bc779d7191421dbdec 2007.0/x86_64/lib64gs8-devel-8.15-47.1mdv2007.0.x86_64.rpm
565329aff7352e288bd013255a8ab2c0 2007.0/x86_64/lib64ijs1-0.35-47.1mdv2007.0.x86_64.rpm
5e9b515501e6cd3c85bba86e124f709d 2007.0/x86_64/lib64ijs1-devel-0.35-47.1mdv2007.0.x86_64.rpm
e87895f43a658ff693dd890f70cac645 2007.0/SRPMS/ghostscript-8.15-47.1mdv2007.0.src.rpm

Original Advisory:
http://www.mandriva.com/en/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:055

Other References:
SA29103:
http://secunia.com/advisories/29103/



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