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Date: Wed, 01 Apr 2009 21:43:47 +0200
From: Jan Lieskovsky <jlieskov@...hat.com>
To: "Steven M. Christey" <coley@...us.mitre.org>
Cc: oss-security <oss-security@...ts.openwall.com>
Subject: CVE request -- ghostscript

Hello Steve,

  could you please allocate new CVE ids for the following two 
Ghostscript issues:

1, DoS (crash) in CCITTFax decoding filter
   References:
   https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=493442
   https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=229174 
   -^ original report, so CVE-2007-XXXX will be needed
   https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=493442#c1 (PoC)


2, Buffer overflow in BaseFont writer module for pdfwrite defice
   References:
   https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=493445
   http://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=690211
   -^ upstream bug report, so CVE-2008-XXXX will be needed
   http://svn.ghostscript.com/viewvc?view=rev&sortby=rev&revision=9304 (upstream patch)


Thanks, Jan.
--
Jan iankko Lieskovsky / Red Hat Security Response Team

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