Bug#839260: ghostscript: various sandbox bypasses
Package: ghostscript
Version: 9.19~dfsg-3
Tags: security
Severity: grave
Tavis Ormandy has reported several sandbox bypasses on the
oss-security mailing list.
<http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/09/29/3>
(also see follow-ups)
Filed upstream as:
<http://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=697169>
<http://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=697178>
This is a fairly important security issue because it introduces
vulnerabilities into CUPS and programs such as mail clients which use
mailcap entries and run Ghostscript indirectly.
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