USN-2697-1

William Robinet and Stefan Cornelius discovered that Ghostscript did not correctly handle certain Postscript files. If a user or automated system were tricked into opening a specially crafted file, an attacker could cause a denial of service or possibly execute arbitrary code.

References

Affected packages

Ubuntu:14.04:LTS / ghostscript

Package

Name: ghostscript
Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/ghostscript@9.10~dfsg-0ubuntu10.4?arch=source&distro=trusty

Affected ranges

Type: ECOSYSTEM
Events: Introduced

0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Fixed

9.10~dfsg-0ubuntu10.4

Affected versions

9.*

9.10~dfsg-0ubuntu2

9.10~dfsg-0ubuntu3

9.10~dfsg-0ubuntu4

9.10~dfsg-0ubuntu5

9.10~dfsg-0ubuntu6

9.10~dfsg-0ubuntu7

9.10~dfsg-0ubuntu8

9.10~dfsg-0ubuntu9

9.10~dfsg-0ubuntu10

9.10~dfsg-0ubuntu10.1

9.10~dfsg-0ubuntu10.2

9.10~dfsg-0ubuntu10.3

Ecosystem specific

{
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_name": "ghostscript",
            "binary_version": "9.10~dfsg-0ubuntu10.4"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "ghostscript-x",
            "binary_version": "9.10~dfsg-0ubuntu10.4"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "libgs-dev",
            "binary_version": "9.10~dfsg-0ubuntu10.4"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "libgs9",
            "binary_version": "9.10~dfsg-0ubuntu10.4"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "libgs9-common",
            "binary_version": "9.10~dfsg-0ubuntu10.4"
        }
    ],
    "availability": "No subscription required"
}

Database specific

cves_map

{
    "cves": [
        {
            "severity": [
                {
                    "score": "medium",
                    "type": "Ubuntu"
                }
            ],
            "id": "CVE-2015-3228"
        }
    ],
    "ecosystem": "Ubuntu:14.04:LTS"
}