Mageia: 2020-0143 Severe Risk in Ghostscript File Permissions Issue
mageia
January 30, 2019
Ghostscript could be made to crash, access files, or run programs if it opened a specially crafted file
Summary
Ghostscript could be made to crash, access files, or run programs if it
opened a specially crafted file. (CVE-2019-6116)
References
- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=24233
- https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2019/01/23/5
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3866-1
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/2019/msg00011.html
- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2019-6116
Topics Covered
Resolution
SRPMS
- 6/core/ghostscript-9.26-1.2.mga6
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Publication date: 30 Jan 2019
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2019-0056.html
Type: security
CVE: CVE-2019-6116
Topics Covered
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