Univention Bugzilla – Bug 47888
ghostscript: Multiple issues (4.2)
Last modified: 2018-10-04 16:17:00 CEST
New Debian ghostscript 9.06~dfsg-2+deb8u9 fixes: This update addresses the following issues: * gssetresolution and gsgetresolution memory corruption (699670) (CVE-2018-16543) * User-writable error exception table (CVE-2018-17183)
--- mirror/ftp/4.2/unmaintained/component/4.2-5-errata/source/ghostscript_9.06~dfsg-2+deb8u8.dsc +++ apt/ucs_4.2-0-errata4.2-5/source/ghostscript_9.06~dfsg-2+deb8u9.dsc @@ -1,3 +1,16 @@ +9.06~dfsg-2+deb8u9 [Wed, 26 Sep 2018 15:24:02 +0200] Markus Koschany <apo@debian.org>: + + * Fix CVE-2018-16543 and CVE-2018-17183: + This is a follow-up update for the recently discovered -dSAFER issues + reported by Tavis Ormandy. + Tavis Ormandy discovered multiple vulnerabilites 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). + * Use the txtwrite device for ps2ascii from now on to prevent an error due to + the fix for CVE-2018-17183. + 9.06~dfsg-2+deb8u8 [Thu, 13 Sep 2018 13:07:02 +0200] Markus Koschany <apo@debian.org>: * Non-maintainer upload by the LTS team. <http://10.200.17.11/4.2-5/#7982427427226446142>
OK: yaml OK: announce_errata OK: patch OK: piuparts [4.2-5] 330cad075f Bug #47888: ghostscript 9.06~dfsg-2+deb8u9 doc/errata/staging/ghostscript.yaml | 3 +-- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-) [4.2-5] e18fe03b22 Bug #47888: ghostscript 9.06~dfsg-2+deb8u9 doc/errata/staging/ghostscript.yaml | 15 +++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+)
<http://errata.software-univention.de/ucs/4.2/522.html>