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<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
<glsa id="201612-33">
<title>GPL Ghostscript: User-assisted execution of arbitrary code</title>
<synopsis>An integer overflow in GPL Ghostscript may allow remote attackers
to execute arbitrary code.
</synopsis>
<product type="ebuild">ghostscript-gpl</product>
<announced>2016-12-13</announced>
<revised count="2">2016-12-13</revised>
<bug>556316</bug>
<access>remote</access>
<affected>
<package name="app-text/ghostscript-gpl" auto="yes" arch="*">
<unaffected range="ge">9.09</unaffected>
<vulnerable range="lt">9.09</vulnerable>
</package>
</affected>
<background>
<p>Ghostscript is an interpreter for the PostScript language and for PDF.</p>
</background>
<description>
<p>An integer overflow flaw was discovered that leads to an out-of-bounds
read and write in gs_ttf.ps.
</p>
</description>
<impact type="normal">
<p>A remote attacker could entice a user to open a specially crafted file,
possibly resulting in the execution of arbitrary code with the privileges
of the process or a Denial of Service condition.
</p>
</impact>
<workaround>
<p>There is no known workaround at this time.</p>
</workaround>
<resolution>
<p>All GPL Ghostscript users should upgrade to the latest version:</p>
<code>
# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "&gt;=app-text/ghostscript-gpl-9.09"
</code>
</resolution>
<references>
<uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2015-3228">CVE-2015-3228</uri>
</references>
<metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2016-11-22T15:13:30Z">whissi</metadata>
<metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2016-12-13T06:58:50Z">whissi</metadata>
</glsa>