oss-security - CVE request: ghostscript

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Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2010 12:28:39 -0400
From: Marc Deslauriers <marc.deslauriers@...onical.com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Cc: "Steven M. Christey" <coley@...us.mitre.org>
Subject: CVE request: ghostscript

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

Thanks,

Marc.

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Marc Deslauriers
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