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openSUSE: 2019:2534-1 Important: Ghostscript High Privilege Exploit

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Calendar Grey November 20, 2019
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
A significant release for Ghostscript addresses a severe vulnerability that permits elevated access through specially designed Postscript scripts.
An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available.

Description

This update for ghostscript fixes the following issues:

- CVE-2019-14869: Fixed a possible dSAFER escape which could have allowed

an attacker to gain high privileges by a specially crafted Postscript

code (bsc#1156275).

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

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Topics Covered

security advisory security update exploit ghostscript important openSUSE high privilege

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-2019-2534=1

Package List

- openSUSE Leap 15.0 (i586 x86_64):

ghostscript-9.27-lp150.2.26.1

ghostscript-debuginfo-9.27-lp150.2.26.1

ghostscript-debugsource-9.27-lp150.2.26.1

ghostscript-devel-9.27-lp150.2.26.1

ghostscript-mini-9.27-lp150.2.26.1

ghostscript-mini-debuginfo-9.27-lp150.2.26.1

ghostscript-mini-debugsource-9.27-lp150.2.26.1

ghostscript-mini-devel-9.27-lp150.2.26.1

ghostscript-x11-9.27-lp150.2.26.1

ghostscript-x11-debuginfo-9.27-lp150.2.26.1

References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-14869.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1156275

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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2019:2534-1
Rating: important
Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 15.0

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