Re: ghostscript vulnerabilities

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Hello,

I notice the patch for CVE-2016-7977[0] handles the problem differently
than GNU Ghostscript[1] does. Maybe you can take a look at it.

[0]: http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=3Dghostpdl.git;a=3Dcommitdiff;h=3D8abd22=
010eb4db0fb1b10e430d5f5d83e015ef70
[1]: http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/ghostscript.git/tree/psi/zfile.c

Thanks,
Alex

Didier Link <[email protected]> writes:

> Hello all
>
> I will review the Mark's patches and apply them for a security release ne=
xt week.
>
> Thanks for your help !
>
> Best regards
>
> Didier
>
> Le 15/10/2016 =C3=A0 09:36, Mark H Weaver a =C3=A9crit :
>
>  [email protected] (Ludovic Court=C3=A8s) writes:
>
>  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 <[email protected]> skribis:
>
>  Salvatore Bonaccorso <[email protected]> writes:
>
>  -------------------------------------------------------------------------
>=20=20
> Debian Security Advisory DSA-3691-1                   [email protected]
> 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?
>
> FYI, I ported the upstream patches to GNU ghostscript for GNU Guix.
> You can find them here:
>
> http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/commit/?id=3D1de17a648fa631f007=
4d315bfff0716220ce4880
>
>       Mark

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