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SUSE: CVE-2016-8602: SUSE Linux Security Advisory

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Oct 26, 2016
Added
Nov 3, 2016
Modified
Aug 10, 2021

Description

The .sethalftone5 function in psi/zht2.c in Ghostscript before 9.21 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted Postscript document that calls .sethalftone5 with an empty operand stack.

Solutions

suse-upgrade-ghostscriptsuse-upgrade-ghostscript-develsuse-upgrade-ghostscript-fonts-othersuse-upgrade-ghostscript-fonts-russuse-upgrade-ghostscript-fonts-stdsuse-upgrade-ghostscript-ijs-develsuse-upgrade-ghostscript-librarysuse-upgrade-ghostscript-omnisuse-upgrade-ghostscript-x11suse-upgrade-libgimpprintsuse-upgrade-libgimpprint-devel
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