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Debian 8 DSA-3691-1 Critical: Ghostscript Code Execution Threat

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Calendar Grey October 12, 2016
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Debian Security Advisory DSA-3692-1 outlines urgent patches for OpenSSL, tackling vulnerabilities that could lead to data breaches.
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 special...
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Summary

For the stable distribution (jessie), these problems have been fixed in
version 9.06~dfsg-2+deb8u3.

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-2013-5653 CVE-2016-7976 CVE-2016-7977 CVE-2016-7978

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