Debian Security Advisory

DSA-4336-1 ghostscript -- security update

Date Reported:

10 Nov 2018

Affected Packages:

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 910678, Bug 910758, Bug 911175.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2018-11645, CVE-2018-17961, CVE-2018-18073, CVE-2018-18284.

More information:

Several vulnerabilities were discovered in Ghostscript, the GPL PostScript/PDF interpreter, which may result in denial of service, disclosure of existence and size of arbitrary files, or the execution of arbitrary code if a malformed Postscript file is processed (despite the dSAFER sandbox being enabled).

This update rebases ghostscript for stretch to the upstream version 9.25 which includes additional non-security related changes.

For the stable distribution (stretch), these problems have been fixed in version 9.25~dfsg-0+deb9u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your ghostscript packages.

For the detailed security status of ghostscript please refer to its security tracker page at: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/ghostscript