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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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- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Security Advisory
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...
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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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