<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd"> <glsa id="201708-06"> <title>GPL Ghostscript: Multiple vulnerabilities</title> <synopsis>Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in GPL Ghostscript, the worst of which can resulting in the execution of arbitrary code. </synopsis> <product type="ebuild">ghostscriptgpl</product> <announced>2017-08-21</announced> <revised count="1">2017-08-21</revised> <bug>616814</bug> <bug>617016</bug> <bug>617018</bug> <bug>617020</bug> <bug>617022</bug> <bug>618818</bug> <access>remote</access> <affected> <package name="app-text/ghostscript-gpl" auto="yes" arch="*"> <unaffected range="ge">9.21</unaffected> <vulnerable range="lt">9.21</vulnerable> </package> </affected> <background> <p>Ghostscript is an interpreter for the PostScript language and for PDF.</p> </background> <description> <p>Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in GPL Ghostscript. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for additional information. </p> </description> <impact type="normal"> <p>A context-dependent attacker could entice a user to open a specially crafted PostScript file or PDF document using GPL Ghostscript possibly resulting in the execution of arbitrary code with the privileges of the process or a Denial of Service condition. </p> </impact> <workaround> <p>There is no known workaround at this time.</p> </workaround> <resolution> <p>All GPL Ghostscript users should upgrade to the latest version:</p> <code> # emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=app-text/ghostscript-gpl-9.21" </code> </resolution> <references> <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2016-10219"> CVE-2016-10219 </uri> <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2016-10220"> CVE-2016-10220 </uri> <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2017-5951">CVE-2017-5951</uri> <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2017-6196">CVE-2017-6196</uri> <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2017-7207">CVE-2017-7207</uri> <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2017-8291">CVE-2017-8291</uri> </references> <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2017-07-17T22:58:42Z">b-man</metadata> <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2017-08-21T01:03:33Z">b-man</metadata> </glsa>