[SECURITY] Fedora 16 Update: ghostscript-9.05-2.fc16

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2012-13839
2012-09-12 00:06:18
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Name        : ghostscript
Product     : Fedora 16
Version     : 9.05
Release     : 2.fc16
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 removes some bundled libraries, notably icclib. This avoids security issue CVE-2012-4405.
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ChangeLog:

* Tue Sep 11 2012 Tim Waugh <twaugh at redhat.com> 9.05-2
- Removed more bundled packages (bug #816747). In particular, icclib
  is no longer bundled (bug #856060, CVE-2012-4405).
* Thu Feb  9 2012 Tim Waugh <twaugh at redhat.com>
- Avoid mixed tabs and spaces in spec file.
* Thu Feb  9 2012 Tim Waugh <twaugh at redhat.com> 9.05-1
- 9.05.
* Fri Jan  6 2012 Tim Waugh <twaugh at redhat.com> 9.04-9
- Use %_cups_serverbin macro.
* Fri Jan  6 2012 Tim Waugh <twaugh at redhat.com> 9.04-8
- Rebuilt for GCC 4.7.
* Tue Nov  8 2011 Tim Waugh <twaugh at redhat.com> 9.04-7
- Applied fix for type 1 font copying code SEAC scanner (bug #728710).
* Mon Nov  7 2011 Tim Waugh <twaugh at redhat.com> 9.04-6
- Rebuilt for new libpng.
* Tue Nov  1 2011 Tim Waugh <twaugh at redhat.com> 9.04-5
- Applied upstream fix for skipping "cached" outline glyphs (bug #742349).
* Wed Aug 31 2011 Tim Waugh <twaugh at redhat.com> 9.04-4
- Fixed typo (EXTRAFLAGS -> EXTRACFLAGS).
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #854227 - CVE-2012-4405 ghostscript, argyllcms: Array index error leading to heap-based bufer OOB write
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=854227
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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/.

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