openSUSE Leap 15.0: 2018:1909-1 Moderate Ghostscript Denial Of Service
opensuse
July 7, 2018
An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available.
Description
This update for ghostscript fixes the following issues:
- CVE-2018-10194: The set_text_distance function did not prevent overflows
in text-positioning calculation, which allowed remote attackers to cause
a denial
of service (application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact
via a crafted PDF document (bsc#1090099).
This update was imported from the SUSE:SLE-15:Update update project.
Topics Covered
Patch
Patch Instructions:
To install this openSUSE Security Update use the SUSE recommended installation methods
like YaST online_update or "zypper patch".
Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:
- openSUSE Leap 15.0:
zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2018-706=1
Package List
- openSUSE Leap 15.0 (i586 x86_64):
ghostscript-9.23-lp150.2.3.1
ghostscript-debuginfo-9.23-lp150.2.3.1
ghostscript-debugsource-9.23-lp150.2.3.1
ghostscript-devel-9.23-lp150.2.3.1
ghostscript-mini-9.23-lp150.2.3.1
ghostscript-mini-debuginfo-9.23-lp150.2.3.1
ghostscript-mini-debugsource-9.23-lp150.2.3.1
ghostscript-mini-devel-9.23-lp150.2.3.1
ghostscript-x11-9.23-lp150.2.3.1
ghostscript-x11-debuginfo-9.23-lp150.2.3.1
References
https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-10194.html
https://bugzilla.suse.com/1090099
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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2018:1909-1
Rating: moderate
Affected Products:
openSUSE Leap 15.0
Topics Covered
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