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Old 04-09-2008
Ubuntu: Ghostscript vulnerability
LinuxSecurity.com: Chris Evans discovered that Ghostscript contained a buffer overflow in its color space handling code. If a user or automated system were tricked into opening a crafted Postscript file, an attacker could cause a denial of service or execute arbitrary code with privileges of the user invoking the program. (CVE-2008-0411)

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eps2eps

PS2PS(1)							 Ghostscript Tools							  PS2PS(1)

NAME

       ps2ps, eps2eps - Ghostscript PostScript "distiller"

SYNOPSIS

       ps2ps [ options ] input.ps output.ps
       eps2eps [ options ] input.eps output.eps

DESCRIPTION

       ps2ps uses gs(1) to convert PostScript(tm) file "input.ps" to simpler, normalized and (usually) faster PostScript in "output.ps".  Normally
       the output is allowed to use PostScript Level 2 or Level 3 constructs, but the -dLanguageLevel=1 option restricts the output to Level 1.

       eps2eps performs the equivalent optimization for Encapsulated PostScript (EPS) files.

       Both accept any general Ghostscript command line options, and respectively options specific to the pswrite and epswrite devices.

FILES

       Run "gs -h" to find the location of Ghostscript documentation on your system, from which you can get more details.

BUGS

       The pswrite device used by both ps2ps and eps2eps produces much lower level output than is desirable. Use with caution.

SEE ALSO

       ps2pdf(1), ps2ascii(1), ps2epsi(1)

VERSION

       This document was last revised for Ghostscript version 8.63.

AUTHOR

       Artifex Software, Inc. are the primary maintainers of Ghostscript.

8.63								   1 August 2008							  PS2PS(1)