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Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2010 11:00:56 -0600
From: Vincent Danen <vdanen@...hat.com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Cc: "Steven M. Christey" <coley@...us.mitre.org>
Subject: Re: CVE request: ghostscript

* [2010-07-12 12:48:35 -0400] Dan Rosenberg wrote:

>I believe this is identical to CVE-2010-1869
>(http://www.cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=2010-1869).

They don't look identical to me.  Patches differ, upstream bugs differ.

Can't really do anything hands-on to test since the PoC attached to the
upstream bug is private.

>On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 12:28 PM, Marc Deslauriers
><marc.deslauriers@...onical.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I don't think this ever got a CVE:
>>
>> A memory corruption vulnerability in Ghostscript 8.64 and earlier caused
>> by long names can lead to arbitrary code execution.
>>
>> http://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=690523
>> http://svn.ghostscript.com/viewvc?view=rev&revision=9797

-- 
Vincent Danen / Red Hat Security Response Team 

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