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openSUSE Leap 15.4: 2022:0099-1 critical: ghostscript buffer overflow

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Calendar Grey January 17, 2022
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
Tackling concerns in Ghostscript for openSUSE Leap 15.3 regarding this security patch addressing moderate vulnerabilities.
An update that fixes two vulnerabilities is now available

Description

This update for ghostscript fixes the following issues:

- CVE-2021-45944: Fixed use-after-free in sampled_data_sample (bsc#1194303)

- CVE-2021-45949: Fixed heap-based buffer overflow in sampled_data_finish

(bsc#1194304)

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-15.3-2022-88=1

Package List

- openSUSE Leap 15.3 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64):

ghostscript-9.52-161.1

ghostscript-debuginfo-9.52-161.1

ghostscript-debugsource-9.52-161.1

ghostscript-devel-9.52-161.1

ghostscript-x11-9.52-161.1

ghostscript-x11-debuginfo-9.52-161.1

References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-45944.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-45949.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1194303

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1194304

Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2022:0088-1
Rating: moderate
Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 15.3 .

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