From: Secunia Security Advisories (sec-advsecunia.com)
Date: Tue Mar 24 2009 - 17:47:05 CDT

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TITLE:
Gentoo update for ghostscript

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA34437

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/34437/

DESCRIPTION:
Gentoo has issued an update for ghostscript. This fixes some
vulnerabilities, which can potentially be exploited by malicious
people to compromise an application using the library.

For more information:
SA34373

SOLUTION:
Update to a fixed version.

GPL Ghostscript:
Update to "app-text/ghostscript-gpl-8.64-r2" or later

GNU Ghostscript:
Update to"app-text/ghostscript-gnu-8.62.0" or later

ESP Ghostscript:
Unmerge and use one of the above.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
GLSA-200903-37:
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200903-37.xml

OTHER REFERENCES:
SA34373:
http://secunia.com/advisories/34373/

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