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openSUSE 15.4/15.5 Advisory: 2023:4920-1 Critical Ghostscript Pointer Issue

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Calendar Grey December 20, 2023
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A major enhancement to ghostscript addresses a key dangling reference vulnerability in openSUSE environments. Discover more insights today.
This update for ghostscript fixes the following issues: CVE-2023-46751: Fixed dangling pointer in gdev_prn_open_printer_seekable() (bsc#1217871).

Description

This update for ghostscript fixes the following issues:

* CVE-2023-46751: Fixed dangling pointer in gdev_prn_open_printer_seekable()

(bsc#1217871).

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Patch

## Patch Instructions:

To install this SUSE 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 15.4

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-SLE-15.4-2023-4920=1

* openSUSE Leap 15.5

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-SLE-15.5-2023-4920=1

* Basesystem Module 15-SP4

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Basesystem-15-SP4-2023-4920=1

* Basesystem Module 15-SP5

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Basesystem-15-SP5-2023-4920=1

* SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP1 LTSS 15-SP1

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Product-HPC-15-SP1-LTSS-2023-4920=1

* SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP2 LTSS 15-SP2

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Product-HPC-15-SP2-LTSS-2023-4920=1

* SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing ESPOS 15 SP3

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Product-HPC-15-SP3-ESPOS-2023-4920=1

* SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing LTSS 15 SP3

zypper in -t patch...

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Package List

* openSUSE Leap 15.4 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64)

* ghostscript-x11-9.52-150000.177.1

* ghostscript-debugsource-9.52-150000.177.1

* ghostscript-9.52-150000.177.1

* ghostscript-x11-debuginfo-9.52-150000.177.1

* ghostscript-debuginfo-9.52-150000.177.1

* ghostscript-devel-9.52-150000.177.1

* openSUSE Leap 15.5 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64)

* ghostscript-x11-9.52-150000.177.1

* ghostscript-debugsource-9.52-150000.177.1

* ghostscript-9.52-150000.177.1

* ghostscript-x11-debuginfo-9.52-150000.177.1

* ghostscript-debuginfo-9.52-150000.177.1

* ghostscript-devel-9.52-150000.177.1

* Basesystem Module 15-SP4 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64)

* ghostscript-x11-9.52-150000.177.1

* ghostscript-debugsource-9.52-150000.177.1

* ghostscript-9.52-150000.177.1

* ghostscript-x11-debuginfo-9.52-150000.177.1

* ghostscript-debuginfo-9.52-150000.177.1

* ghostscript-devel-9.52-150000.177.1

* Basesystem Module 15-SP5 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64)

* ghostscript-x11-9.52-150000.177.1

* ghostscript-debugsource-9.52-150000.177.1

*...

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References

* bsc#1217871

## References:

* https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-46751.html

* https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1217871

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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2023:4920-1
Rating: important

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