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Debian: DSA-4336-1 Critical Ghostscript Threats and Updates

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Calendar Grey November 10, 2018
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An upgrade to ghostscript addresses various security flaws impacting the Debian operating systems. Immediate update advised!
Several vulnerabilities were discovered in Ghostscript, the GPL PostScript/PDF interpreter, which may result in denial of service, disclosure of existence and size of arbitrary fil...

Summary

This update rebases ghostscript for stretch to the upstream version 9.25
which includes additional non-security related changes.

For the stable distribution (stretch), these problems have been fixed in
version 9.25~dfsg-0+deb9u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your ghostscript packages.

For the detailed security status of ghostscript please refer to its
security tracker page at:
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/source-package/ghostscript

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-2018-11645 CVE-2018-17961 CVE-2018-18073 CVE-2018-18284

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