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: .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: 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: 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 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: 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: 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: 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...

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...

USN-3148-1 ghostscript vulnerabilities

Tavis Ormandy discovered multiple vulnerabilities in the way that Ghostscript processes certain Postscript files. If a user or automated system were tricked into opening a specially crafted file, an attacker could cause a denial of service or possibly execute arbitrary code. CVE-2016-7976,...

USN-3148-1: Ghostscript vulnerabilities

Tavis Ormandy discovered multiple vulnerabilities in the way that Ghostscript processes certain Postscript files. If a user or automated system were tricked into opening a specially crafted file, an attacker could cause a denial of service or possibly execute arbitrary code. CVE-2016-7976,...

[SECURITY] Fedora 23 Update: ghostscript-9.20-5.fc23

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-9.20-4.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...

[SECURITY] Fedora 24 Update: ghostscript-9.20-5.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] [DSA 3691-2] ghostscript regression update

------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Security Advisory DSA-3691-2 [email protected] https://www.debian.org/security/ Salvatore Bonaccorso October 28, 2016 https://www.debian.org/security/faq -...

[SECURITY] [DSA 3691-2] ghostscript regression update

------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Security Advisory DSA-3691-2 [email protected] https://www.debian.org/security/ Salvatore Bonaccorso October 28, 2016 https://www.debian.org/security/faq -...

[SECURITY] [DLA 674-1] ghostscript security update

Package : ghostscript Version : 9.05dfsg-6.3+deb7u3 CVE ID : CVE-2013-5653 CVE-2016-7976 CVE-2016-7977 CVE-2016-7978 CVE-2016-7979 CVE-2016-8602 Debian Bug : 839118 839260 839841 839845 839846 840451 Several vulnerabilities were discovered in Ghostscript, the GPL PostScript/PDF interpreter, which...