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Debian: DSA-3986-1 Moderate: Ghostscript Service Denial Risk

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Calendar Grey September 29, 2017
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The recent security patch for Ghostscript fixes several vulnerabilities within the Debian operating system that could potentially disrupt service accessibility.
Several vulnerabilities were discovered in Ghostscript, the GPL PostScript/PDF interpreter, which may result in denial of service if a specially crafted Postscript file is processe...

Summary

For the oldstable distribution (jessie), these problems have been fixed
in version 9.06~dfsg-2+deb8u6.

For the stable distribution (stretch), these problems have been fixed in
version 9.20~dfsg-3.2+deb9u1.

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/



Package: ghostscript
CVE ID: CVE-2017-9611 CVE-2017-9612 CVE-2017-9726 CVE-2017-9727

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