Advisories » MGASA-2019-0130

Updated ghostscript packages fix security vulnerability

Publication date: 05 Apr 2019
Modification date: 05 Apr 2019
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases : 6
CVE: CVE-2019-3835 , CVE-2019-3838

Description

It was found that the superexec operator was available in the internal
dictionary.  A specially crafted PostScript file could use this flaw in
order to, for example, have access to the file system outside of the
constrains imposed by -dSAFER. (CVE-2019-3835)

It was found that the forceput operator could be extracted from the
DefineResource method using methods similar to the ones described in
CVE-2019-6116. A specially crafted PostScript file could use this flaw in
order to, for example, have access to the file system outside of the
constraints imposed by -dSAFER. (CVE-2019-3838)
                

References

• https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=24548
• https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2019/03/21/1
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:0633
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2019-3835
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2019-3838

SRPMS

6/core

• ghostscript-9.26-1.3.mga6