Security update for ghostscript

Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2019:0718-1
Rating: important
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CVSS scores:
  • CVE-2019-3838 ( SUSE ): 8.8 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
  • CVE-2019-3838 ( NVD ): 5.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
  • CVE-2019-3838 ( NVD ): 5.5 CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Affected Products:
  • Basesystem Module 15
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 15
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15

An update that solves one vulnerability can now be installed.

Description:

This update for ghostscript fixes the following issue:

Security issue fixed:

  • CVE-2019-3838: Fixed a vulnerability which made forceput operator in DefineResource to be still accessible which could allow access to file system outside of the constraints of -dSAFER (bsc#1129186).

Patch Instructions:

To install this SUSE update use the SUSE recommended installation methods like YaST online_update or "zypper patch".
Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

  • Basesystem Module 15
    zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Basesystem-15-2019-718=1

Package List:

  • Basesystem Module 15 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64)
    • ghostscript-debuginfo-9.26a-3.15.1
    • ghostscript-9.26a-3.15.1
    • ghostscript-debugsource-9.26a-3.15.1
    • ghostscript-devel-9.26a-3.15.1
    • ghostscript-x11-9.26a-3.15.1
    • ghostscript-x11-debuginfo-9.26a-3.15.1

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