Secure testing team - Jun 2010 - Bug#584068: xpaint: Security bugs in ghostscript

Package: xpaint
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 suggests 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

Versions of packages xpaint depends on:
ii  libc6                  2.7-18lenny2      GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libjpeg62              6b-14             The Independent JPEG
Group''s JPEG
pn  libpng2                <none>            (no description available)
pn  libtiff3g              <none>            (no description available)
ii  libxaw7                2:1.0.4-2         X11 Athena Widget library
pn  xlibs                  <none>            (no description available)
ii  zlib1g                 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-12 compression library - runtime

xpaint recommends no packages.

Versions of packages xpaint suggests:
pn  eeyes                   <none>           (no description available)
ii  netpbm                  2:10.0-12+lenny1 Graphics conversion tools