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Debian 8: DLA-1552-1 Moderate: Ghostscript Denial of Service

debian lts
Calendar Grey October 22, 2018
Dist Debian Esm H88
Stay secure by addressing Ghostscript vulnerabilities in Debian LTS with essential upgrade recommendations for users and system administrators to follow
This is a follow-up update for the recently discovered -dSAFER issues reported by Tavis Ormandy
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Summary

Tavis Ormandy discovered multiple vulnerabilites in Ghostscript, an
interpreter for the PostScript language, which could result in denial of
service, the creation of files or the execution of arbitrary code if a
malformed Postscript file is processed (despite the dSAFER sandbox being
enabled).

For Debian 8 "Jessie", these problems have been fixed in version
9.06~dfsg-2+deb8u11.

We recommend that you upgrade your ghostscript packages.

Further information about Debian LTS security advisories, how to apply
these updates to your system and frequently asked questions can be
found at: https://wiki.debian.org/LTS


Package: ghostscript
Version: 9.06~dfsg-2+deb8u11
CVE ID: CVE-2018-17961 CVE-2018-18073 CVE-2018-18284
Debian Bug: 910678 910758 911175

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