Debian Security Advisory

DLA-1048-1 ghostscript -- LTS security update

Date Reported:

01 Aug 2017

Affected Packages:

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 858350, Bug 869977, Bug 869907, Bug 869910, Bug 869913, Bug 869915, Bug 869916, Bug 869917.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2017-7207, CVE-2017-9611, CVE-2017-9612, CVE-2017-9726, CVE-2017-9727, CVE-2017-9739, CVE-2017-9835, CVE-2017-11714.

More information:

Several issues were found in Ghostscript, the GPL PostScript/PDF interpreter, which allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (heap-based buffer overflow and application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted PostScript document.

For Debian 7 Wheezy, these problems have been fixed in version 9.05~dfsg-6.3+deb7u7.

We recommend that you upgrade your ghostscript packages.

Further information about Debian LTS security advisories, how to apply these updates to your system and frequently asked questions can be found at: https://wiki.debian.org/LTS