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Oracle Solaris 11: CVE-2016-7979: Vulnerability in Ghostscript

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Oracle Solaris 11: CVE-2016-7979: Vulnerability in Ghostscript

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
05/23/2017
Created
03/19/2019
Added
10/19/2018
Modified
02/17/2022

Description

Ghostscript before 9.21 might allow remote attackers to bypass the SAFER mode protection mechanism and consequently execute arbitrary code by leveraging type confusion in .initialize_dsc_parser.

Solution(s)

  • oracle-solaris-11-3-upgrade-print-filter-ghostscript-9-26-0-175-3-36-0-10-0
  • oracle-solaris-11-4-upgrade-entire-11-4-11-4-0-0-1-15-0

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