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openSUSE 13.2: 2016:2650-2 Critical Ghostscript Vulnerabilities Identified

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Calendar Grey October 26, 2016
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
New release for openSUSE fixes several significant ghostscript vulnerabilities. Essential update guidelines provided for all users.
An update that fixes four vulnerabilities is now available.

Description

This update for ghostscript fixes the following issues:

- CVE-2016-8602: Fixes a NULL dereference in .sethalftone5 (boo#1004237).

- CVE-2013-5653, CVE-2016-7978, CVE-2016-7979: Fix multiple -dsafer

related CVE's (boo#1001951).

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Topics Covered

security advisory security issue DoS ghostscript important openSUSE patch instructions

Patch

Patch Instructions:

To install this openSUSE Security Update use YaST online_update.

Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

- openSUSE 13.2:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2016-1237=1

To bring your system up-to-date, use "zypper patch".

Package List

- openSUSE 13.2 (i586 x86_64):

ghostscript-9.15-6.1

ghostscript-debuginfo-9.15-6.1

ghostscript-debugsource-9.15-6.1

ghostscript-devel-9.15-6.1

ghostscript-mini-9.15-6.1

ghostscript-mini-debuginfo-9.15-6.1

ghostscript-mini-debugsource-9.15-6.1

ghostscript-mini-devel-9.15-6.1

ghostscript-x11-9.15-6.1

ghostscript-x11-debuginfo-9.15-6.1

References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2013-5653.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-7978.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-7979.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-8602.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1001951

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1004237

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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2016:2648-1
Rating: important
Affected Products: openSUSE 13.2

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Topics Covered

security advisory security issue DoS ghostscript important openSUSE patch instructions

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