Your message dated Wed, 2 Jun 2010 00:22:27 +0100
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and subject line Re: Bug#584031: pyxplot: Security bugs in ghostscript
has caused the Debian Bug report #584031,
regarding pyxplot: Security bugs in ghostscript
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Package: pyxplot
Severity: grave
Tags: security
Justification: user security hole
Please note remote execute-any-code security bugs in ghostscript:
http://bugs.debian.org/583183
This package depends on ghostscript, and may be affected. Please
evaluate the security of this package, and fix if needed.
Thanks,
Paul Szabo p...@maths.usyd.edu.au http://www.maths.usyd.edu.au/u/psz/
School of Mathematics and Statistics University of Sydney Australia
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Debian Release: 5.0.4
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APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-pk03.17-svr (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
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pyxplot makes all its calls to gs from inside a temp directory that is only
writable by the user who is running pyxplot; so it would seem that this is
quite irrelevant to pyxplot.
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