vulnerability

CentOS Linux: CVE-2016-7977: Moderate: ghostscript security update (Multiple Advisories)

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
Oct 11, 2016
Added
Jan 27, 2017
Modified
May 25, 2023

Description

Ghostscript before 9.21 might allow remote attackers to bypass the SAFER mode protection mechanism and consequently read arbitrary files via the use of the .libfile operator in a crafted postscript document.

Solutions

centos-upgrade-ghostscriptcentos-upgrade-ghostscript-cupscentos-upgrade-ghostscript-debuginfocentos-upgrade-ghostscript-develcentos-upgrade-ghostscript-doccentos-upgrade-ghostscript-gtk
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