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openSUSE Leap 15.0 Advisory: 2019:1121-1 Important Ghostscript Security Fix

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Calendar Grey April 2, 2019
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
An important patch for Fedora resolves CVE-2020-1234 impacting libc. Immediate implementation recommended.
An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available.

Description

This update for ghostscript fixes the following issue:

Security issue fixed:

- CVE-2019-3838: Fixed a vulnerability which made forceput operator in

DefineResource to be still accessible which could allow access to file

system outside of the constraints of -dSAFER (bsc#1129186).

This update was imported from the SUSE:SLE-15:Update update project.

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-2019-1121=1

Package List

- openSUSE Leap 15.0 (i586 x86_64):

ghostscript-9.26a-lp150.2.17.2

ghostscript-debuginfo-9.26a-lp150.2.17.2

ghostscript-debugsource-9.26a-lp150.2.17.2

ghostscript-devel-9.26a-lp150.2.17.2

ghostscript-mini-9.26a-lp150.2.17.2

ghostscript-mini-debuginfo-9.26a-lp150.2.17.2

ghostscript-mini-debugsource-9.26a-lp150.2.17.2

ghostscript-mini-devel-9.26a-lp150.2.17.2

ghostscript-x11-9.26a-lp150.2.17.2

ghostscript-x11-debuginfo-9.26a-lp150.2.17.2

References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-3838.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1129186

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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2019:1121-1
Rating: important
Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 15.0

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