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openSUSE Leap 15.3: 2021:3044-1 Critical: Ghostscript Command Injection

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Calendar Grey September 15, 2021
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
Uncover the essential security patch for Ghostscript tackling command execution vulnerabilities in openSUSE. Ensure your defense!
An update that solves one vulnerability and has one errata is now available

Description

This update for ghostscript fixes the following issues:

Security issue fixed:

- CVE-2021-3781: Fixed a trivial -dSAFER bypass command injection

(bsc#1190381)

Also a hardening fix was added:

- Link as position independent executable (bsc#1184123)

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 15.3:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-SLE-15.3-2021-3044=1

Package List

- openSUSE Leap 15.3 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64):

ghostscript-9.52-155.1

ghostscript-debuginfo-9.52-155.1

ghostscript-debugsource-9.52-155.1

ghostscript-devel-9.52-155.1

ghostscript-x11-9.52-155.1

ghostscript-x11-debuginfo-9.52-155.1

libspectre-debugsource-0.2.8-3.12.1

libspectre-devel-0.2.8-3.12.1

libspectre1-0.2.8-3.12.1

libspectre1-debuginfo-0.2.8-3.12.1

References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-3781.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1184123

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1190381

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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2021:3044-1
Rating: critical
Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 15.3 ble.

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