Debian Security Advisory

DLA-1504-1 ghostscript -- LTS security update

Date Reported:

13 Sep 2018

Affected Packages:

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 907332, Bug 908305, Bug 907703.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2018-11645, CVE-2018-15908, CVE-2018-15909, CVE-2018-15910, CVE-2018-15911, CVE-2018-16509, CVE-2018-16511, CVE-2018-16513, CVE-2018-16539, CVE-2018-16540, CVE-2018-16541, CVE-2018-16542, CVE-2018-16585, CVE-2018-16802.

More information:

Tavis Ormandy discovered multiple vulnerabilities in Ghostscript, an interpreter for the PostScript language, which could result in denial of service, the creation of files or the execution of arbitrary code if a malformed Postscript file is processed (despite the dSAFER sandbox being enabled).

For Debian 8 Jessie, these problems have been fixed in version 9.06~dfsg-2+deb8u8.

We recommend that you upgrade your ghostscript packages.

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