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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
<glsa id="201612-33">
  <title>GPL Ghostscript: User-assisted execution of arbitrary code</title>
  <synopsis>An integer overflow in GPL Ghostscript may allow remote attackers
    to execute arbitrary code.
  </synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild">ghostscript-gpl</product>
  <announced>2016-12-13</announced>
  <revised>2016-12-13: 2</revised>
  <bug>556316</bug>
  <access>remote</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="app-text/ghostscript-gpl" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">9.09</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">9.09</vulnerable>
    </package>
  </affected>
  <background>
    <p>Ghostscript is an interpreter for the PostScript language and for PDF.</p>
  </background>
  <description>
    <p>An integer overflow flaw was discovered that leads to an out-of-bounds
      read and write in gs_ttf.ps.
    </p>
  </description>
  <impact type="normal">
    <p>A remote attacker could entice a user to open a specially crafted file,
      possibly resulting in the execution of arbitrary code with the privileges
      of the process or a Denial of Service condition.
    </p>
  </impact>
  <workaround>
    <p>There is no known workaround at this time.</p>
  </workaround>
  <resolution>
    <p>All GPL Ghostscript users should upgrade to the latest version:</p>
    
    <code>
      # emerge --sync
      # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "&gt;=app-text/ghostscript-gpl-9.09"
    </code>
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2015-3228">CVE-2015-3228</uri>
  </references>
  <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2016-11-22T15:13:30Z">whissi</metadata>
  <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2016-12-13T06:58:50Z">whissi</metadata>
</glsa>