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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
<glsa id="201708-06">
  <title>GPL Ghostscript: Multiple vulnerabilities</title>
  <synopsis>Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in GPL Ghostscript, the
    worst of which can resulting in the execution of arbitrary code.
  </synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild">ghostscriptgpl</product>
  <announced>2017-08-21</announced>
  <revised count="1">2017-08-21</revised>
  <bug>616814</bug>
  <bug>617016</bug>
  <bug>617018</bug>
  <bug>617020</bug>
  <bug>617022</bug>
  <bug>618818</bug>
  <access>remote</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="app-text/ghostscript-gpl" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">9.21</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">9.21</vulnerable>
    </package>
  </affected>
  <background>
    <p>Ghostscript is an interpreter for the PostScript language and for PDF.</p>
  </background>
  <description>
    <p>Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in GPL Ghostscript. Please
      review the CVE identifiers referenced below for additional information.
    </p>
  </description>
  <impact type="normal">
    <p>A context-dependent attacker could entice a user to open a specially
      crafted PostScript file or PDF document using GPL Ghostscript 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-9.21"
    </code>
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2016-10219">
      CVE-2016-10219
    </uri>
    <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2016-10220">
      CVE-2016-10220
    </uri>
    <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2017-5951">CVE-2017-5951</uri>
    <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2017-6196">CVE-2017-6196</uri>
    <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2017-7207">CVE-2017-7207</uri>
    <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2017-8291">CVE-2017-8291</uri>
  </references>
  <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2017-07-17T22:58:42Z">b-man</metadata>
  <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2017-08-21T01:03:33Z">b-man</metadata>
</glsa>