Secure testing team - Jun 2010 - Bug#584005: epstool: Security bugs in ghostscript

Package: epstool
Severity: grave
Tags: security
Justification: user security hole


Please note remote execute-any-code security bugs in ghostscript:

  http://bugs.debian.org/583183

This package depends on ghostscript, and may be affected. Please
evaluate the security of this package, and fix if needed.

Thanks,

Paul Szabo   psz at maths.usyd.edu.au   http://www.maths.usyd.edu.au/u/psz/
School of Mathematics and Statistics   University of Sydney    Australia


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0.4
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, ''stable'')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-pk03.17-svr (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash