DSA-3326-1 ghostscript -- security update

Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2015-3228  

William Robinet and Stefan Cornelius discovered an integer overflow in Ghostscript, the GPL PostScript/PDF interpreter, which may result in denial of service or potentially execution of arbitrary code if a specially crafted file is opened. For the oldstable distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed in version 9.05~dfsg-6.3+deb7u2. For the stable distribution (jessie), this problem has been fixed in version 9.06~dfsg-2+deb8u1. For the testing distribution (stretch), this problem has been fixed in version 9.15~dfsg-1. For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 9.15~dfsg-1. We recommend that you upgrade your ghostscript packages.

Debian Security Advisory

DSA-3326-1 ghostscript -- security update

Date Reported:
02 Aug 2015
Affected Packages:
ghostscript
Vulnerable:
Yes
Security database references:
In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 793489.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2015-3228.
More information:

William Robinet and Stefan Cornelius discovered an integer overflow in Ghostscript, the GPL PostScript/PDF interpreter, which may result in denial of service or potentially execution of arbitrary code if a specially crafted file is opened.

For the oldstable distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed in version 9.05~dfsg-6.3+deb7u2.

For the stable distribution (jessie), this problem has been fixed in version 9.06~dfsg-2+deb8u1.

For the testing distribution (stretch), this problem has been fixed in version 9.15~dfsg-1.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 9.15~dfsg-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your ghostscript packages.