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Debian DSA-3326-1 Critical: Ghostscript Integer Overflow Exploit

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Calendar Grey August 2, 2015
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Debian Security Advisory DSA-3391-1 addresses a critical vulnerability in OpenSSL related to buffer overflow issues that could lead to severe security ramifications.
William Robinet and Stefan Cornelius discovered an integer overflow in Ghostscript, the GPL PostScript/PDF interpreter, which may result in denial of service or potentially executi...

Summary

For the oldstable distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed
in version 9.05~dfsg-6.3+deb7u2.

For the stable distribution (jessie), this problem has been fixed in
version 9.06~dfsg-2+deb8u1.

For the testing distribution (stretch), this problem has been fixed
in version 9.15~dfsg-1.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in
version 9.15~dfsg-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your ghostscript packages.

Further information about Debian Security Advisories, how to apply
these updates to your system and frequently asked questions can be
found at: https://www.debian.org/security/



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Package: ghostscript
CVE ID: CVE-2015-3228

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