Opened 7 years ago

Closed 7 years ago

#8841 closed defect (fixed)

ghostscript-9.20 vulnerability fixes.

Reported by: ken@… Owned by: ken@…
Priority: high Milestone: 8.0
Component: BOOK Version: SVN
Severity: normal Keywords:
Cc:

Description

While I was trying to understand a build failure (which disappeared on a repeat attempt) I discovered that fedora have six patches to fix CVE numbers in ghostscript-9.20.

The numbers (in order of application) are CVE-2016-7979, CVE-2016-7976, CVE-2016-7978, CVE-2016-8602, CVE-2016-7977, CVE-2016-9601.

As is common, Mitre has marked these are Reserved, but there are bugzilla entries in the fedora specfile and from those there is at least one use after free.

I assumed these were fedora patches, but each one is from upstream's git tree so I guess we ought to batch them up as upstream fixes.

I'll do this unless anyone has a good reason not to apply these.

Change History (3)

comment:1 by ken@…, 7 years ago

Owner: changed from blfs-book@… to ken@…
Status: newassigned

comment:2 by ken@…, 7 years ago

Looking at what is in patches, I'll call it security_fixes to match the older patches.

comment:3 by ken@…, 7 years ago

Resolution: fixed
Status: assignedclosed

Fixed at r18243.

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