[SECURITY] Fedora 13 Update: ghostscript-8.71-10.fc13

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2010-11325
2010-07-23 01:55:43
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Name        : ghostscript
Product     : Fedora 13
Version     : 8.71
Release     : 10.fc13
URL         : http://www.ghostscript.com/
Summary     : A PostScript interpreter and renderer
Description :
Ghostscript is a set of software that provides a PostScript
interpreter, a set of C procedures (the Ghostscript library, which
implements the graphics capabilities in the PostScript language) and
an interpreter for Portable Document Format (PDF) files. Ghostscript
translates PostScript code into many common, bitmapped formats, like
those understood by your printer or screen. Ghostscript is normally
used to display PostScript files and to print PostScript files to
non-PostScript printers.

If you need to display PostScript files or print them to
non-PostScript printers, you should install ghostscript. If you
install ghostscript, you also need to install the ghostscript-fonts
package.

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Update Information:

This update fixes memory corruption when a PostScript stack overflow occurs
(CVE-2010-1628).
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ChangeLog:

* Fri Jul 16 2010 Tim Waugh <twaugh at redhat.com> 8.71-10
- Applied patch to fix CVE-2010-1628 (memory corruption at PS stack
  overflow, bug #592492).
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #592492 - CVE-2010-1628 ghostscript: internal stack overflow due to recursive calls
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=592492
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use 
su -c 'yum update ghostscript' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",
available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.

All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key.  More details on the
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https://fedoraproject.org/keys
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