Debian Security Advisory DSA 3691-1 (ghostscript - security update)

Several vulnerabilities were discovered in Ghostscript, the GPL PostScript/PDF interpreter, which may lead to the execution of arbitrary code or information disclosure if a specially crafted Postscript file is processed. OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: deb3691.nasl 6959 2017-08-18 07:24:59Z astei...

SUSE SLED12 / SLES12 Security Update : ghostscript-library (SUSE-SU-2016:2492-1)

This update for ghostscript-library fixes the following issues : - Multiple security vulnerabilities have been discovered where ghostscript's '-dsafer' flag did not provide sufficient protection against unintended access to the file system. Thus, a machine that would process a specially crafted...

UBUNTU-CVE-2016-8602

The .sethalftone5 function in psi/zht2.c in Ghostscript before 9.21 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service application crash or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted Postscript document that calls .sethalftone5 with an empty operand stack...

DSA-3691-1 ghostscript - security update

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CVE-2016-8602

The .sethalftone5 function in psi/zht2.c in Ghostscript before 9.21 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service application crash or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted Postscript document that calls .sethalftone5 with an empty operand stack...

Debian: Security Advisory (DSA-3691-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the Debian SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2016 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...

CVE-2016-7977

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...

CVE-2016-7977

Ghostscript before 9.21 might allow remote attackers to bypass the SAFER mode protection mechanism and consequently read arbitrary files via the use of the .libfile operator in a crafted postscript document...

UBUNTU-CVE-2016-7977

Ghostscript before 9.21 might allow remote attackers to bypass the SAFER mode protection mechanism and consequently read arbitrary files via the use of the .libfile operator in a crafted postscript document...

Microsoft Windows Kernel - 'ATMFD.dll' NamedEscape 0x250C Pool Corruption (MS16-074)

Source: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=785 The Adobe Type Manager Font Driver ATMFD.DLL responsible for handling PostScript and OpenType fonts in the Windows kernel provides a channel of communication with user-mode applications via an undocumented gdi32!NamedEscape API...

Microsoft Windows - Kernel ATMFD.dll NamedEscape 0x250C Pool Corruption (MS16-074)

Exploit for windows platform in category dos / poc Source: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=785 The Adobe Type Manager Font Driver ATMFD.DLL responsible for handling PostScript and OpenType fonts in the Windows kernel provides a channel of communication with user-mode...

Microsoft Windows Kernel - ATMFD.dll NamedEscape 0x250C Pool Corruption (MS16-074)

Microsoft Windows Kernel - ATMFD.dll NamedEscape 0x250C Pool Corruption MS16-074 Source: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=785 The Adobe Type Manager Font Driver ATMFD.DLL responsible for handling PostScript and OpenType fonts in the Windows kernel provides a channel of...

SRC-2016-0039 : Microsoft Windows PDF Library PostScript Calculator Out-of-Bounds Read Information Disclosure Vulnerability

Vulnerability Details: This vulnerability allows remote attackers to disclose sensitive information on vulnerable installations of the Microsoft Windows PDF Library. User interaction is required to exploit this vulnerability in that the target must visit a malicious page or open a malicious file...

Debian DLA-371-1 : foomatic-filters security update

Adam Chester discovered that there was an injection vulnerability in foomatic-filters which is used by printer spoolers to convert incoming PostScript data into the printer's native format. This could lead to the execution of arbitrary commands. The patch applied in DLA 365-1 prevented usage of...

DLA-371-1 foomatic-filters - security update

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The EPS Awakens

On September 8, FireEye published details about an attack exploiting zero day vulnerabilities in Microsoft Office CVE-2015-2545 and Windows CVE-2015-2546. The attack was particularly notable because it leveraged PostScript to drive memory corruption in a way that had never been seen before. The...

Debian DLA-365-1 : foomatic-filters security update

It was discovered that there was an injection vulnerability in foomatic-filters which is used by printer spoolers to convert incoming PostScript data into the printer's native format. For Debian 6 Squeeze, this issue has been fixed in foomatic-filters version 4.0.5-6+squeeze2+deb6u11 NOTE: Tenabl...

DLA-365-1 foomatic-filters - security update

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[SECURITY] Fedora 22 Update: potrace-1.13-2.fc22

Potrace is a utility for tracing a bitmap, which means, transforming a bitm ap into a smooth, scalable image. The input is a bitmap PBM, PGM, PPM, or BMP format, and the default output is an encapsulated PostScript file EPS. A typical use is to create EPS files from scanned data, such as company ...

[SECURITY] Fedora 23 Update: potrace-1.13-2.fc23

Potrace is a utility for tracing a bitmap, which means, transforming a bitm ap into a smooth, scalable image. The input is a bitmap PBM, PGM, PPM, or BMP format, and the default output is an encapsulated PostScript file EPS. A typical use is to create EPS files from scanned data, such as company ...