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Debian: DSA-4569-1 Critical Ghostscript File Bypass Issue

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Calendar Grey November 14, 2019
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Debian Security Notice DSA-4570-2 addresses a significant Ghostscript update resolving an urgent data exposure flaw.
Manfred Paul and Lukas Schauer reported that the .charkeys procedure in Ghostscript, the GPL PostScript/PDF interpreter, does not properly restrict privileged calls, which could re...
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Summary

For the oldstable distribution (stretch), this problem has been fixed
in version 9.26a~dfsg-0+deb9u6.

For the stable distribution (buster), this problem has been fixed in
version 9.27~dfsg-2+deb10u3.

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-2019-14869

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