Secure testing team - Jun 2010 - Bug#584062: sdf: Security bugs in ghostscript

Package: sdf
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 sdf depends on:
ii  perl                     5.10.0-19lenny2 Larry Wall''s Practical
Extraction

sdf recommends no packages.

Versions of packages sdf suggests:
ii  ghostscript-x [gs] 8.62.dfsg.1-3.2lenny1 The GPL Ghostscript PostScript/PDF
ii  gs                 8.62.dfsg.1-3.2lenny1 Transitional package
pn  htmldoc            <none>                (no description available)
ii  perl-doc           5.10.0-19lenny2       Perl documentation
pn  sdf-doc            <none>                (no description available)
pn  sgmltools-lite     <none>                (no description available)
ii  tetex-bin          2007.dfsg.2-1~lenny2  TeX Live: teTeX transitional packa