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- CVEs with nessus.description==An update for ghostscript is now available for Red Hat Enterprise
Linux 6.
Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security
impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base
score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each
vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.
The Ghostscript suite contains utilities for rendering PostScript and
PDF documents. Ghostscript translates PostScript code to common bitmap
formats so that the code can be displayed or printed.
Security Fix(es) :
* It was found that the ghostscript functions getenv, filenameforall
and .libfile did not honor the -dSAFER option, usually used when
processing untrusted documents, leading to information disclosure. A
specially crafted postscript document could read environment variable,
list directory and retrieve file content respectively, from the
target. (CVE-2013-5653, CVE-2016-7977)
* It was found that the ghostscript function .initialize_dsc_parser
did not validate its parameter before using it, allowing a type
confusion flaw. A specially crafted postscript document could cause a
crash code execution in the context of the gs process. (CVE-2016-7979)
* It was found that ghostscript did not sufficiently check the
validity of parameters given to the .sethalftone5 function. A
specially crafted postscript document could cause a crash, or execute
arbitrary code in the context of the gs process. (CVE-2016-8602)
Max CVSS | 0 |
Min CVSS | 0 |
Total Count | 2 |
| ID | CVSS | Summary | Last (major) update | Published |
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