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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...
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: 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...
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...
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: 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...
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...
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...
Debian DLA-674-2 : ghostscript regression update
The update for ghostscript issued as DLA-674-1 caused regressions for certain Postscript document viewers evince, zathura. Updated packages are now available to address this problem. For reference, the original advisory text follows. Several vulnerabilities were discovered in Ghostscript, the GPL...