l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes: > 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?
FYI, I ported the upstream patches to GNU ghostscript for GNU Guix. You can find them here: http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/commit/?id=1de17a648fa631f0074d315bfff0716220ce4880 Mark
