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Debian: DSA-3691-2 Critical Update For Ghostscript Regression

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Calendar Grey October 28, 2016
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Debian Security Advisory DSA-3692-3 addresses recent vulnerabilities in GIMP. Essential patch now available.
The update for ghostscript issued as DSA-3691-1 caused regressions for certain Postscript document viewers (evince, zathura)
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Summary

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.

For the stable distribution (jessie), this problem has been fixed in
version 9.06~dfsg-2+deb8u4.

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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