Debian Security Advisory
DSA-3691-1 ghostscript -- security update
- Date Reported:
- 12 Oct 2016
- Affected Packages:
- ghostscript
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 839118, Bug 839260, Bug 839841, Bug 839845, Bug 839846, Bug 840451.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2013-5653, CVE-2016-7976, CVE-2016-7977, CVE-2016-7978, CVE-2016-7979, CVE-2016-8602. - More information:
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Several vulnerabilities were discovered in Ghostscript, the GPL PostScript/PDF interpreter, which may lead to the execution of arbitrary code or information disclosure if a specially crafted Postscript file is processed.
For the stable distribution (jessie), these problems have been fixed in version 9.06~dfsg-2+deb8u3.
We recommend that you upgrade your ghostscript packages.