Slackware-12.0 ChangeLog (2008-03-02)

Sun Mar 2 00:15:53 CST 2008

patches/packages/espgs-8.15.4-i486-3_slack12.0.tgz:
This patched version of ESP Ghostscript fixes a buffer overflow.
For more information on the security issue, please see:
http://scary.beasts.org/security/CESA-2008-001.html
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-0411
Thanks to Chris Evans and Will Drewry of Google Security for their work
on discovering and demonstrating the overflow.
(* Security fix *)
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