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Debian 9: DLA-2335-1 Critical Ghostscript Privilege Escalation and DoS

debian lts
Calendar Grey August 20, 2020
Dist Debian Esm H88
Ubuntu Security Notice USN-5391-1 addresses various vulnerabilities in imagemagick which might allow for remote code execution and service disruptions.
Multiple vulnerabilities were found in ghostscript, an interpreter for the PostScript language and for PDF, allowing an attacker to escalate privileges and cause denial of service ...
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Summary

For Debian 9 stretch, these problems have been fixed in version
9.26a~dfsg-0+deb9u7.

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


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Package: ghostscript
Version: 9.26a~dfsg-0+deb9u7
CVE ID: CVE-2020-16287 CVE-2020-16288 CVE-2020-16289 CVE-2020-16290

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