[SECURITY] Fedora 24 Update: ghostscript-9.20-6.fc24

Ghostscript is a set of software that provides a PostScript interpreter, a set of C procedures the Ghostscript library, which implements the graphics capabilities in the PostScript language and an interpreter for Portable Document Format PDF files. Ghostscript translates PostScript code into many...

[SECURITY] Fedora 25 Update: ghostscript-9.20-6.fc25

Ghostscript is a set of software that provides a PostScript interpreter, a set of C procedures the Ghostscript library, which implements the graphics capabilities in the PostScript language and an interpreter for Portable Document Format PDF files. Ghostscript translates PostScript code into many...

a2ps: Arbitrary code execution

Background a2ps is an Any to PostScript filter. Description a2ps’ fixps script does not invoke gs with the -dSAFER option. Impact Remote attackers, by enticing a user to process a specially crafted PostScript file, could delete arbitrary files or execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the...

Amazon Linux AMI : ghostscript (ALAS-2017-784)

It was found that the ghostscript functions getenv, filenameforall and .libfile did not honor the -dSAFER option, usually used when processing untrusted documents, leading to information disclosure. A specially crafted postscript document could read environment variable, list directory and retrie...

Ghostscript 'psi/zht2.c' Null Pointer Reference Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

PostScript PS is a page description language and programming language used in the electronics industry and desktop publishing.Artifex Software Ghostscript is an open-source PostScript parser from Artifex Software that displays Postscript files and prints Postscript files on non-PostScript printer...

Medium: ghostscript

Issue Overview: It was found that the ghostscript functions getenv, filenameforall and .libfile did not honor the -dSAFER option, usually used when processing untrusted documents, leading to information disclosure. A specially crafted postscript document could read environment variable, list...

RedHat Update for ghostscript RHSA-2017:0014-01

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2017 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

RHEL 7 : ghostscript (RHSA-2017:0013)

An update for ghostscript is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability fro...

Scientific Linux Security Update : ghostscript on SL6.x i386/x86_64 (20170104)

Security Fixes : - It was found that the ghostscript functions getenv, filenameforall and .libfile did not honor the -dSAFER option, usually used when processing untrusted documents, leading to information disclosure. A specially crafted postscript document could read environment variable, list...

ghostscript security update

CentOS Errata and Security Advisory CESA-2017:0013 An update for ghostscript is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed...

ghostscript: Type confusion in .initialize_dsc_parser allows remote code execution

It was found that the ghostscript function .initializedscparser did not validate its parameter before using it, allowing a type confusion flaw. A specially crafted postscript document could cause a crash code execution in the context of the gs process...

Moderate: Red Hat Security Advisory: ghostscript security update

An update for ghostscript is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability fro...

ghostscript: reference leak in .setdevice allows use-after-free and remote code execution

It was found that the ghostscript function .setdevice suffered a use-after-free vulnerability due to an incorrect reference count. A specially crafted postscript document could trigger code execution in the context of the gs process...

ghostscript: .libfile does not honor -dSAFER

It was found that ghostscript function .libfile did not honor the -dSAFER option, usually used when processing untrusted documents, leading to information disclosure. A specially crafted postscript document could, in the context of the gs process, retrieve file content on the target machine...

ghostscript: check for sufficient params in .sethalftone5

It was found that ghostscript did not sufficiently check the validity of parameters given to the .sethalftone5 function. A specially crafted postscript document could cause a crash, or execute arbitrary code in the context of the gs process...

ghostscript: Type confusion in .initialize_dsc_parser allows remote code execution

It was found that the ghostscript function .initializedscparser did not validate its parameter before using it, allowing a type confusion flaw. A specially crafted postscript document could cause a crash code execution in the context of the gs process...

Moderate: Red Hat Security Advisory: ghostscript security update

An update for ghostscript is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability fro...

ghostscript: getenv and filenameforall ignore -dSAFER

It was found that the ghostscript functions getenv and filenameforall did not honor the -dSAFER option, usually used when processing untrusted documents, leading to information disclosure. A specially crafted postscript document could read environment variable and list directory respectively, fro...

ghostscript: check for sufficient params in .sethalftone5

It was found that ghostscript did not sufficiently check the validity of parameters given to the .sethalftone5 function. A specially crafted postscript document could cause a crash, or execute arbitrary code in the context of the gs process...

CVE-2016-9601

ghostscript before version 9.21 is vulnerable to a heap based buffer overflow that was found in the ghostscript jbig2decodegrayscaleimage function which is used to decode halftone segments in a JBIG2 image. A document PostScript or PDF with an embedded, specially crafted, jbig2 image could trigge...