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CVE-2008-6679

CVE-2008-6679

EPSS 4.5%
Buffer overflow in the BaseFont writer module in Ghostscript 8.62, and possibly other versions, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (ps2pdf crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted Postscript file.
Affected products
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References
http://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=690211http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-06/msg00003.htmlhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=493445http://secunia.com/advisories/34667http://secunia.com/advisories/34729http://secunia.com/advisories/34732http://secunia.com/advisories/35416http://secunia.com/advisories/35559http://secunia.com/advisories/35569https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10019http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-262288-1https://usn.ubuntu.com/757-1/