DSA-3986-1 ghostscript -- security update

Debian Security Advisory

DSA-3986-1 ghostscript -- security update

Date Reported:

29 Sep 2017

Affected Packages:

ghostscript

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 869907, Bug 869910, Bug 869913, Bug 869915, Bug 869916, Bug 869917, Bug 869977.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2017-9611, CVE-2017-9612, CVE-2017-9726, CVE-2017-9727, CVE-2017-9739, CVE-2017-9835, CVE-2017-11714.

More information:

Several vulnerabilities were discovered in Ghostscript, the GPL PostScript/PDF interpreter, which may result in denial of service if a specially crafted Postscript file is processed.

For the oldstable distribution (jessie), these problems have been fixed in version 9.06~dfsg-2+deb8u6.

For the stable distribution (stretch), these problems have been fixed in version 9.20~dfsg-3.2+deb9u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your ghostscript packages.