Scientific Linux SL6: SLSA-2017:0014-1 Moderate Threat in Ghostscript

Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2017 15:31:11 -0000
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Sender: Security Errata for Scientific Linux
 
From: Pat Riehecky 
Subject: Security ERRATA Moderate: ghostscript on SL6.x i386/x86_64
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Synopsis: Moderate: ghostscript security update
Advisory ID: SLSA-2017:0014-1
Issue Date: 2017-01-04
CVE Numbers: CVE-2013-5653
 CVE-2016-7977
 CVE-2016-7979
 CVE-2016-8602
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Security Fix(es):

* It was found that the ghostscript functions getenv, filenameforall and
.libfile did not honor the -dSAFER option, usually used when processing
untrusted documents, leading to information disclosure. A specially
crafted postscript document could read environment variable, list
directory and retrieve file content respectively, from the target.
(CVE-2013-5653, CVE-2016-7977)

* It was found that the ghostscript function.initialize_dsc_parser did
not validate its parameter before using it, allowing a type confusion
flaw. A specially crafted postscript document could cause a crash code
execution in the context of the gs process. (CVE-2016-7979)

* It was found that ghostscript did not sufficiently check the validity of
parameters given to the.sethalftone5 function. A specially crafted
postscript document could cause a crash, or execute arbitrary code in the
context of the gs process. (CVE-2016-8602)
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SL6
 x86_64
 ghostscript-8.70-21.el6_8.1.i686.rpm
 ghostscript-8.70-21.el6_8.1.x86_64.rpm
 ghostscript-debuginfo-8.70-21.el6_8.1.i686.rpm
 ghostscript-debuginfo-8.70-21.el6_8.1.x86_64.rpm
 ghostscript-devel-8.70-21.el6_8.1.i686.rpm
 ghostscript-devel-8.70-21.el6_8.1.x86_64.rpm
 ghostscript-doc-8.70-21.el6_8.1.x86_64.rpm
 ghostscript-gtk-8.70-21.el6_8.1.x86_64.rpm
 i386
 ghostscript-8.70-21.el6_8.1.i686.rpm
 ghostscript-debuginfo-8.70-21.el6_8.1.i686.rpm
 ghostscript-devel-8.70-21.el6_8.1.i686.rpm
 ghostscript-doc-8.70-21.el6_8.1.i686.rpm
 ghostscript-gtk-8.70-21.el6_8.1.i686.rpm

- Scientific Linux Development Team