<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd"> <glsa id="201412-17"> <title>GPL Ghostscript: Multiple vulnerabilities</title> <synopsis>Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in GPL Ghostscript, the worst of which may allow execution of arbitrary code. </synopsis> <product type="ebuild">ghostscript-gpl</product> <announced>2014-12-13</announced> <revised count="1">2014-12-13</revised> <bug>264594</bug> <bug>300192</bug> <bug>332061</bug> <bug>437654</bug> <access>remote</access> <affected> <package name="app-text/ghostscript-gpl" auto="yes" arch="*"> <unaffected range="ge">9.10-r2</unaffected> <vulnerable range="lt">9.10-r2</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 details. </p> </description> <impact type="normal"> <p>A context-dependent attacker could entice a user to open a specially crafted PostScript file or PDF using GPL Ghostscript, possibly resulting in 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-9.10-r2" </code> </resolution> <references> <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2009-0196">CVE-2009-0196</uri> <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2009-0792">CVE-2009-0792</uri> <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2009-3743">CVE-2009-3743</uri> <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2009-4270">CVE-2009-4270</uri> <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2009-4897">CVE-2009-4897</uri> <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2010-1628">CVE-2010-1628</uri> <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2010-2055">CVE-2010-2055</uri> <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2010-4054">CVE-2010-4054</uri> <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2012-4405">CVE-2012-4405</uri> </references> <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2011-10-07T23:38:17Z">a3li</metadata> <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2014-12-13T17:06:42Z">ackle</metadata> </glsa>