From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?=) Subject: Re: ghostscript vulnerabilities Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2016 23:13:54 +0200 Message-ID: <87mvi9l17x.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87insx37ss.fsf@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:36074) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1buQql-00078B-GK for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 12 Oct 2016 17:14:08 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1buQqj-00085K-8J for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 12 Oct 2016 17:14:06 -0400 In-Reply-To: <87insx37ss.fsf@gmail.com> (Alex Vong's message of "Wed, 12 Oct 2016 23:29:07 +0800") List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: bug-ghostscript@gnu.org, didier@famille-link.fr Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org Hello Didier and all, We are wondering about the applicability to GNU=C2=A0Ghostscript of the recent vulnerabilities discovered in AGPL=C2=A0Ghostscript: Alex Vong skribis: > Salvatore Bonaccorso writes: > >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> Debian Security Advisory DSA-3691-1 security@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= =20 >> 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=3D840451 > [1]: http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/ghostscript.git/tree/psi/zht2.c WDYT? Perhaps a new release incorporating the fixes is in order? Thanks, Ludo=E2=80=99.