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Slackware 15.0: 2024-067-01 Critical: Ghostscript Arbitrary Code Execution

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Calendar Grey March 7, 2024
Dist Slackware Esm H88
Recent ghostscript updates have been released for Slackware addressing significant security vulnerabilities. Upgrading is advised!
New ghostscript packages are available for Slackware 15.0 and -current to fix security issues

Summary

Here are the details from the Slackware 15.0 ChangeLog: patches/packages/ghostscript-9.55.0-i586-2_slack15.0.txz: Rebuilt. Fixes security issues: A vulnerability was identified in the way Ghostscript/GhostPDL called tesseract for the OCR devices, which could allow arbitrary code execution. Thanks to J_W for the heads-up. Mishandling of permission validation for pipe devices could allow arbitrary code execution. For more information, see: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-36664 (* Security fix *)

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Topics Covered

security advisory critical code execution ghostscript patch slackware arbitrary code

Where Find New Packages

Thanks to the friendly folks at the OSU Open Source Lab (https://osuosl.org/) for donating FTP and rsync hosting to the Slackware project! :-)
Also see the "Get Slack" section on http://www.slackware.com/ for additional mirror sites near you.
Updated package for Slackware 15.0: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-15.0/patches/packages/ghostscript-9.55.0-i586-2_slack15.0.txz
Updated package for Slackware x86_64 15.0: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware64-15.0/patches/packages/ghostscript-9.55.0-x86_64-2_slack15.0.txz
Updated package for Slackware -current:
Updated package for Slackware x86_64 -current:

MD5 Signatures

Slackware 15.0 package: 533102bd76c090b72680cf466386a458 ghostscript-9.55.0-i586-2_slack15.0.txz
Slackware x86_64 15.0 package: b1ee06e28fd81b1d04a3b62a5a953886 ghostscript-9.55.0-x86_64-2_slack15.0.txz
Slackware -current package: a40a1e316f17c75b753c8d9e3a59dff2 ap/ghostscript-10.03.0-i586-1.txz
Slackware x86_64 -current package: 799f7a0f77d8a2e7624f8b4a97942d45 ap/ghostscript-10.03.0-x86_64-1.txz

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Topics Covered

security advisory critical code execution ghostscript patch slackware arbitrary code

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Installation Instructions

Installation instructions: Upgrade the package as root: # upgradepkg ghostscript-9.55.0-i586-2_slack15.0.txz

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