From sup-info@LOCUTUS4.CALDERASYSTEMS.COM Fri Nov 24 04:26:41 2000 From: Caldera Support Info To: BUGTRAQ@SECURITYFOCUS.COM Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2000 13:20:54 -0700 Subject: [BUGTRAQ] Security update: Two security problems with ghostscript CSSA-2000-041.0 [The following text is in the "iso-8859-1" character set] [Your display is set for the "US-ASCII" character set] [Some characters may be displayed incorrectly] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 ______________________________________________________________________________ Caldera Systems, Inc. Security Advisory Subject: Two security problems with ghostscript Advisory number: CSSA-2000-041.0 Issue date: 2000 November, 22 Cross reference: ______________________________________________________________________________ 1. Problem Description Ghostscript creates temporary files insecurely. In addition, it is linked in a way that makes it pick up shared libraries from the current directory it is in. Both problems can probably be exploited to gain increased privilege on the system. 2. Vulnerable Versions System Package ----------------------------------------------------------- OpenLinux Desktop 2.3 All packages previous to ghostscript-5.10-16 OpenLinux eServer 2.3 All packages previous to and OpenLinux eBuilder ghostscript-5.10-16 OpenLinux eDesktop 2.4 All packages previous to ghostscript-5.10-16 3. Solution Workaround: none The proper solution is to upgrade to the fixed packages 4. OpenLinux Desktop 2.3 4.1 Location of Fixed Packages The upgrade packages can be found on Caldera's FTP site at: ftp://ftp.calderasystems.com/pub/updates/OpenLinux/2.3/current/RPMS/ The corresponding source code package can be found at: ftp://ftp.calderasystems.com/pub/updates/OpenLinux/2.3/current/SRPMS 4.2 Verification e3ff617e515cfd03be8854aff089376e RPMS/ghostscript-5.10-16.i386.rpm f9002fe0592b1d8b88641c10cba2cafe RPMS/ghostscript-doc-5.10-16.i386.rpm 3d2610bbd43160e2cc3b234bc43cea4d RPMS/ghostscript-fonts-5.10-16.i386.rpm 7ca69d444653f0b9e12d69f55873edea SRPMS/ghostscript-5.10-16.src.rpm 4.3 Installing Fixed Packages Upgrade the affected packages with the following commands: rpm -Fhv ghostscript-*.i386.rpm 5. OpenLinux eServer 2.3 and OpenLinux eBuilder for ECential 3.0 5.1 Location of Fixed Packages The upgrade packages can be found on Caldera's FTP site at: ftp://ftp.calderasystems.com/pub/updates/eServer/2.3/current/RPMS/ The corresponding source code package can be found at: ftp://ftp.calderasystems.com/pub/updates/eServer/2.3/current/SRPMS 5.2 Verification ba2ee8c950b3b9ce1791554b5d8e759d RPMS/ghostscript-5.10-16.i386.rpm 1645f133c8e557eede173dc6266707fa RPMS/ghostscript-doc-5.10-16.i386.rpm 88143839c0685864f2d671c6aa7c40bb RPMS/ghostscript-fonts-5.10-16.i386.rpm 7ca69d444653f0b9e12d69f55873edea SRPMS/ghostscript-5.10-16.src.rpm 5.3 Installing Fixed Packages Upgrade the affected packages with the following commands: rpm -Fhv ghostscript-*.i386.rpm 6. OpenLinux eDesktop 2.4 6.1 Location of Fixed Packages The upgrade packages can be found on Caldera's FTP site at: ftp://ftp.calderasystems.com/pub/updates/eDesktop/2.4/current/RPMS/ The corresponding source code package can be found at: ftp://ftp.calderasystems.com/pub/updates/eDesktop/2.4/current/SRPMS 6.2 Verification f327bc2ef65c6d66f99d72317d23789b RPMS/ghostscript-5.10-16.i386.rpm 7202ab90cbd173fd252c624138710abf RPMS/ghostscript-doc-5.10-16.i386.rpm e1d0ee2161ead248a859d10bcc1dcf6c RPMS/ghostscript-fonts-5.10-16.i386.rpm 7ca69d444653f0b9e12d69f55873edea SRPMS/ghostscript-5.10-16.src.rpm 6.3 Installing Fixed Packages Upgrade the affected packages with the following commands: rpm -Fhv ghostscript-*.i386.rpm 7. References This and other Caldera security resources are located at: http://www.calderasystems.com/support/security/index.html This security fix closes Caldera's internal Problem Report 8307. 8. Disclaimer Caldera Systems, Inc. is not responsible for the misuse of any of the information we provide on this website and/or through our security advisories. Our advisories are a service to our customers intended to promote secure installation and use of Caldera OpenLinux. 9. Acknowledgements Caldera Systems wishes to thank Dr. Werner Fink of SuSE, for discovering the bug and notifying us. ______________________________________________________________________________ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE6G+9P18sy83A/qfwRAkS1AJ9il/Q9CTF8cZV/fD1YhCW/stpVhACfbsEo Tpo6ZRg+ig4sf5k6k+v7fFs= =YOJJ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ^@