RHSA-2009:0421Medium

Red Hat Security Advisory: ghostscript security update

Published
April 14, 2009
Last Modified
June 25, 2026

🔗 CVE IDs covered (4)

CVE-2007-6725 →CVE-2008-6679 →CVE-2009-0196 →CVE-2009-0792 →

📋 Description

CVE-2007-6725 — ghostscript: DoS (crash) in CCITTFax decoding filter CVE-2008-6679 — ghostscript: Buffer overflow in BaseFont writer module for pdfwrite device CVE-2009-0196 — ghostscript: Missing boundary check in Ghostscript's jbig2dec library CVE-2009-0792 — argyllcms: Incomplete fix for CVE-2009-0583

🎯 Affected products42

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 5 client)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Workstation (v. 5 client)
  • ghostscript-0:8.15.2-9.4.el5_3.7.i386 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server)
  • ghostscript-0:8.15.2-9.4.el5_3.7.i386 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 5 client)
  • ghostscript-0:8.15.2-9.4.el5_3.7.ia64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server)
  • ghostscript-0:8.15.2-9.4.el5_3.7.ppc as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server)
  • ghostscript-0:8.15.2-9.4.el5_3.7.ppc64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server)
  • ghostscript-0:8.15.2-9.4.el5_3.7.s390 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server)
  • ghostscript-0:8.15.2-9.4.el5_3.7.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server)
  • ghostscript-0:8.15.2-9.4.el5_3.7.src as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server)
  • ghostscript-0:8.15.2-9.4.el5_3.7.src as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 5 client)
  • ghostscript-0:8.15.2-9.4.el5_3.7.src as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Workstation (v. 5 client)
  • ghostscript-0:8.15.2-9.4.el5_3.7.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server)
  • ghostscript-0:8.15.2-9.4.el5_3.7.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 5 client)
  • ghostscript-debuginfo-0:8.15.2-9.4.el5_3.7.i386 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server)
  • ghostscript-debuginfo-0:8.15.2-9.4.el5_3.7.i386 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 5 client)
  • ghostscript-debuginfo-0:8.15.2-9.4.el5_3.7.i386 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Workstation (v. 5 client)
  • ghostscript-debuginfo-0:8.15.2-9.4.el5_3.7.ia64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server)
  • ghostscript-debuginfo-0:8.15.2-9.4.el5_3.7.ppc as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server)
  • ghostscript-debuginfo-0:8.15.2-9.4.el5_3.7.ppc64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server)
  • ghostscript-debuginfo-0:8.15.2-9.4.el5_3.7.s390 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server)
  • ghostscript-debuginfo-0:8.15.2-9.4.el5_3.7.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server)
  • ghostscript-debuginfo-0:8.15.2-9.4.el5_3.7.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server)
  • ghostscript-debuginfo-0:8.15.2-9.4.el5_3.7.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 5 client)
  • ghostscript-debuginfo-0:8.15.2-9.4.el5_3.7.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Workstation (v. 5 client)
  • ghostscript-devel-0:8.15.2-9.4.el5_3.7.i386 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server)
  • ghostscript-devel-0:8.15.2-9.4.el5_3.7.i386 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Workstation (v. 5 client)
  • ghostscript-devel-0:8.15.2-9.4.el5_3.7.ia64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server)
  • ghostscript-devel-0:8.15.2-9.4.el5_3.7.ppc as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server)
  • +12 more not shown

✅ Remediation

Before applying this update, make sure that all previously-released errata relevant to your system have been applied. This update is available via Red Hat Network. Details on how to use the Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/docs/DOC-11259

🔗 References (7)