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SciLinux: SLSA-2018-3760-1 Critical Ghostscript Arbitrary Command Execution

Calendar Dec 04, 2018 • User Avatar LinuxSecurity Advisories
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security advisory security fix ghostscript exploitation attack vector SL6
It was discovered that the ghostscript /invalidaccess checks fail under certain conditions. An attacker could possibly exploit this to bypass the - -dSAFER protection and, for example, execute arbitrary shell commands via a specially crafted PostScript document. (CVE-2018-16509) SL6 x86_64 ghostscript-8.70-24.el6_10.2.i686.rpm ghostscript-8.70-24.el6_10.2.x86_64.rpm ghostscript- [More...] 
Synopsis: Important: ghostscript security update
Advisory ID:       SLSA-2018:3760-1
Issue Date:        2018-12-04
CVE Numbers:       CVE-2018-16509
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Security Fix(es):

* It was discovered that the ghostscript /invalidaccess checks fail under
certain conditions. An attacker could possibly exploit this to bypass the
- -dSAFER protection and, for example, execute arbitrary shell commands
via a specially crafted PostScript document. (CVE-2018-16509)
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SL6
  x86_64
    ghostscript-8.70-24.el6_10.2.i686.rpm
    ghostscript-8.70-24.el6_10.2.x86_64.rpm
    ghostscript-debuginfo-8.70-24.el6_10.2.i686.rpm
    ghostscript-debuginfo-8.70-24.el6_10.2.x86_64.rpm
    ghostscript-devel-8.70-24.el6_10.2.i686.rpm
    ghostscript-devel-8.70-24.el6_10.2.x86_64.rpm
    ghostscript-doc-8.70-24.el6_10.2.x86_64.rpm
    ghostscript-gtk-8.70-24.el6_10.2.x86_64.rpm
  i386
    ghostscript-8.70-24.el6_10.2.i686.rpm
    ghostscript-debuginfo-8.70-24.el6_10.2.i686.rpm
    ghostscript-devel-8.70-24.el6_10.2.i686.rpm
    ghostscript-doc-8.70-24.el6_10.2.i686.rpm
    ghostscript-gtk-8.70-24.el6_10.2.i686.rpm

- Scientific Linux Development Team