From aliz@gentoo.org Wed Apr 16 03:28:28 2003 From: Daniel Ahlberg To: bugtraq@securityfocus.com Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2003 08:31:02 +0200 Subject: GLSA: kdegraphics-3.1.x (200304-04.1) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 - - - --------------------------------------------------------------------- GENTOO LINUX SECURITY ANNOUNCEMENT 200304-04.1 - - - --------------------------------------------------------------------- PACKAGE : kdegraphics-3.1.x SUMMARY : aribitrary code execution DATE : 2003-04-10 15:34 UTC EXPLOIT : remote VERSIONS AFFECTED : =kdegraphics-3.1.1a-r1 CVE : - - - --------------------------------------------------------------------- A new revision of kdegraphics-3.1.1a has been released to fix outstanding security bugs in the 3.1.1a release. - - From advisory: "KDE uses Ghostscript software for processing of PostScript (PS) and PDF files in a way that allows for the execution of arbitrary commands that can be contained in such files. An attacker can prepare a malicious PostScript or PDF file which will provide the attacker with access to the victim's account and privileges when the victim opens this malicious file for viewing or when the victim browses a directory containing such malicious file and has file previews enabled. An attacker can provide malicious files remotely to a victim in an e-mail, as part of a webpage, via an ftp server and possible other means." Read the full advisory at: http://www.kde.org/info/security/advisory-20030409-1.txt SOLUTION It is recommended that all Gentoo Linux users who are running kde-base/kdegraphics upgrade to kdegraphics-3.1.1a-r1 as follows: emerge sync emerge kdegraphics emerge clean - - - --------------------------------------------------------------------- aliz@gentoo.org - GnuPG key is available at http://cvs.gentoo.org/~aliz kde@gentoo.org - - - --------------------------------------------------------------------- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+m6clfT7nyhUpoZMRAghCAJ0eF8K4ZU6cHJwfLOqZU7G1JTUhSQCgjScQ p+nrdUu2hYF0IFdFg3VJ09Y= =+cwr -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----