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openSUSE Leap 42.3: 2018:3036-1 Important: Ghostscript Remote Code Issues

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Calendar Grey October 5, 2018
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
A crucial patch for ImageMagick addresses 12 vulnerabilities, safeguarding against potential code injection and enhancing overall platform integrity.
An update that fixes 16 vulnerabilities is now available.

Description

This update for ghostscript to version 9.25 fixes the following issues:

These security issues were fixed:

- CVE-2018-17183: Remote attackers were be able to supply crafted

PostScript to potentially overwrite or replace error handlers to inject

code (bsc#1109105)

- CVE-2018-15909: Prevent type confusion using the .shfill operator that

could have been used by attackers able to supply crafted PostScript

files to crash the interpreter or potentially execute code (bsc#1106172).

- CVE-2018-15908: Prevent attackers that are able to supply malicious

PostScript files to bypass .tempfile restrictions and write files

(bsc#1106171).

- CVE-2018-15910: Prevent a type confusion in the LockDistillerParams

parameter that could have been used to crash the interpreter or execute

code (bsc#1106173).

- CVE-2018-15911: Prevent use uninitialized memory access in the aesdecode

operator that could have been used to crash the interpreter or

...

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security advisory remote code execution ghostscript security issues important update openSUSE patch instructions

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 42.3:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2018-1122=1

Package List

- openSUSE Leap 42.3 (i586 x86_64):

ghostscript-9.25-14.9.1

ghostscript-debuginfo-9.25-14.9.1

ghostscript-debugsource-9.25-14.9.1

ghostscript-devel-9.25-14.9.1

ghostscript-mini-9.25-14.9.1

ghostscript-mini-debuginfo-9.25-14.9.1

ghostscript-mini-debugsource-9.25-14.9.1

ghostscript-mini-devel-9.25-14.9.1

ghostscript-x11-9.25-14.9.1

ghostscript-x11-debuginfo-9.25-14.9.1

References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-15908.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-15909.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-15910.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-15911.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-16509.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-16510.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-16511.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-16513.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-16539.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-16540.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-16541.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-16542.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-16543.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-16585.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-16802.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-17183.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1106171

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1106172

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1106173

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1106195

https://bugzilla.sus...

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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2018:3036-1
Rating: important
Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 42.3

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security advisory remote code execution ghostscript security issues important update openSUSE patch instructions

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