Hello Didier and all, We are wondering about the applicability to GNU Ghostscript of the recent vulnerabilities discovered in AGPL Ghostscript:
Alex Vong <alexvong1...@gmail.com> skribis: > Salvatore Bonaccorso <car...@debian.org> writes: > >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> Debian Security Advisory DSA-3691-1 secur...@debian.org >> https://www.debian.org/security/ Salvatore Bonaccorso >> October 12, 2016 https://www.debian.org/security/faq >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >> Package : ghostscript >> CVE ID : CVE-2013-5653 CVE-2016-7976 CVE-2016-7977 CVE-2016-7978 >> CVE-2016-7979 CVE-2016-8602 >> Debian Bug : 839118 839260 839841 839845 839846 840451 >> >> 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. [...] > I've checked just now. GNU Ghostscript is also affected at least by > CVE-2016-8602. Looking at the patch in this bug report[0] and the > source[1], one can see that the vulnerable lines are present in GNU > Ghostscript. What should we do now? > > [0]: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=840451 > [1]: http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/ghostscript.git/tree/psi/zht2.c WDYT? Perhaps a new release incorporating the fixes is in order? Thanks, Ludo’.
