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Security ERRATA Important: ghostscript on SL6.x i386/x86_64
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Date:
Tue, 4 Dec 2018 16:53:25 -0000
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Synopsis: Important: ghostscript security update
Advisory ID:       SLSA-2018:3760-1
Issue Date:        2018-12-04
CVE Numbers:       CVE-2018-16509
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Security Fix(es):

* It was discovered that the ghostscript /invalidaccess checks fail under
certain conditions. An attacker could possibly exploit this to bypass the
- -dSAFER protection and, for example, execute arbitrary shell commands
via a specially crafted PostScript document. (CVE-2018-16509)
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SL6
  x86_64
    ghostscript-8.70-24.el6_10.2.i686.rpm
    ghostscript-8.70-24.el6_10.2.x86_64.rpm
    ghostscript-debuginfo-8.70-24.el6_10.2.i686.rpm
    ghostscript-debuginfo-8.70-24.el6_10.2.x86_64.rpm
    ghostscript-devel-8.70-24.el6_10.2.i686.rpm
    ghostscript-devel-8.70-24.el6_10.2.x86_64.rpm
    ghostscript-doc-8.70-24.el6_10.2.x86_64.rpm
    ghostscript-gtk-8.70-24.el6_10.2.x86_64.rpm
  i386
    ghostscript-8.70-24.el6_10.2.i686.rpm
    ghostscript-debuginfo-8.70-24.el6_10.2.i686.rpm
    ghostscript-devel-8.70-24.el6_10.2.i686.rpm
    ghostscript-doc-8.70-24.el6_10.2.i686.rpm
    ghostscript-gtk-8.70-24.el6_10.2.i686.rpm

- Scientific Linux Development Team

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