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Re: Bug#584013: hyperlatex: Security bugs in ghostscript



On Tue, Jun 01, 2010 at 06:32:56PM +0200, Vincent Danjean wrote:
> Perhaps, gs should have these options enabled by default (and provide other
> options to disable them if needed) instead of requiring to modify all
> programs. It would secure home-made scripts, too.

I agree.  I've found (and reported) a couple of cases where people
calling gs did not use -dSAFER and as a result opened up an attack by
malicious documents that could delete files.  In general, there's no
need to be able to manipulate files from within most PostScript
documents.

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