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SUSE: 2021:2456-1 Important: PDFium Zero-Day Vulnerability

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Calendar Grey July 5, 2018
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This SUSE Security Patch addresses a significant ghostscript vulnerability that may lead to application failures when processing harmful PDF files.
An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available

Summary

This update for ghostscript fixes the following issues: - CVE-2018-10194: The set_text_distance function did not prevent overflows in text-positioning calculation, which allowed remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted PDF document (bsc#1090099). Patch Instructions: To install this SUSE 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: - SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Basesystem 15: zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Basesystem-15-2018-1281=1 Package List: - SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Basesystem 15 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64): ghostscript-9.23-3.3.1 ghostscript-debuginfo-9.23-3.3.1

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate denial of service ghostscript application crash SUSE Linux Enterprise

References

#1090099

Cross- CVE-2018-10194

Affected Products:

SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Basesystem 15

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-10194.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1090099

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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2018:1884-1
Rating: moderate

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate denial of service ghostscript application crash SUSE Linux Enterprise

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