GPL Ghostscript: Multiple vulnerabilities

GPL Ghostscript: Multiple vulnerabilities Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in GPL Ghostscript, the worst of which may allow execution of arbitrary code. ghostscript-gpl December 13, 2014 December 13, 2014: 1 264594 300192 332061 437654 remote 9.10-r2 9.10-r2

Ghostscript is an interpreter for the PostScript language and for PDF.

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in GPL Ghostscript. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details.

A context-dependent attacker could entice a user to open a specially crafted PostScript file or PDF using GPL Ghostscript, possibly resulting in execution of arbitrary code with the privileges of the process or a Denial of Service condition.

There is no known workaround at this time.

All GPL Ghostscript users should upgrade to the latest version:


      # emerge --sync
      # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose
      ">=app-text/ghostscript-gpl-9.10-r2"

CVE-2009-0196 CVE-2009-0792 CVE-2009-3743 CVE-2009-4270 CVE-2009-4897 CVE-2010-1628 CVE-2010-2055 CVE-2010-4054 CVE-2012-4405 a3li ackle