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SUSE: 2019:2981-1 Important: Ghostscript High Privilege Risk

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Calendar Grey November 15, 2019
Dist Suse Esm H88
SUSE Security Patch addresses critical vulnerability in Ghostscript: elevated threat level due to specially designed Postscript content.
An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available

Summary

This update for ghostscript fixes the following issues: - CVE-2019-14869: Fixed a possible dSAFER escape which could have allowed an attacker to gain high privileges by a specially crafted Postscript code (bsc#1156275). 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 Open Buildservice Development Tools 15-SP1: zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Development-Tools-OBS-15-SP1-2019-2981=1 - SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Open Buildservice Development Tools 15: zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Development-Tools-OBS-15-2019-2981=1 - SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Basesystem 15-SP1:

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Topics Covered

security advisory ghostscript SUSE attack risk high privilege

References

#1156275

Cross- CVE-2019-14869

Affected Products:

SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Open Buildservice Development Tools 15-SP1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Open Buildservice Development Tools 15

SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Basesystem 15-SP1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Basesystem 15

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-14869.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1156275

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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2019:2981-1
Rating: important

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Topics Covered

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