Recommended update for ghostscript-library

SUSE Security Update: Recommended update for ghostscript-library
Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2019:14155-1
Rating: important
References: #1129186
Affected Products:
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11-SP4-LTSS
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Point of Sale 11-SP3
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Debuginfo 11-SP4
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Debuginfo 11-SP3

An update that contains security fixes can now be installed.

Description:

This update for ghostscript-library fixes the following issues:
Security issue fixed:

  • CVE-2019-3838: Fixed various bugs which allows to reenable and misuse system Postscript operators to read files from within Postscript files and send them with the help of e.g. the %pipe% to the attacker (bsc#1129186).

Patch Instructions:

To install this SUSE Security Update use the SUSE recommended installation methods like YaST online_update or "zypper patch".
Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11-SP4-LTSS:
    zypper in -t patch slessp4-ghostscript-library-14155=1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Point of Sale 11-SP3:
    zypper in -t patch sleposp3-ghostscript-library-14155=1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Debuginfo 11-SP4:
    zypper in -t patch dbgsp4-ghostscript-library-14155=1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Debuginfo 11-SP3:
    zypper in -t patch dbgsp3-ghostscript-library-14155=1

Package List:

  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11-SP4-LTSS (i586 ppc64 s390x x86_64):
    • ghostscript-fonts-other-8.62-47.16.1
    • ghostscript-fonts-rus-8.62-47.16.1
    • ghostscript-fonts-std-8.62-47.16.1
    • ghostscript-library-8.62-47.16.1
    • ghostscript-omni-8.62-47.16.1
    • ghostscript-x11-8.62-47.16.1
    • libgimpprint-4.2.7-47.16.1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Point of Sale 11-SP3 (i586):
    • ghostscript-fonts-other-8.62-47.16.1
    • ghostscript-fonts-rus-8.62-47.16.1
    • ghostscript-fonts-std-8.62-47.16.1
    • ghostscript-library-8.62-47.16.1
    • ghostscript-omni-8.62-47.16.1
    • ghostscript-x11-8.62-47.16.1
    • libgimpprint-4.2.7-47.16.1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Debuginfo 11-SP4 (i586 ppc64 s390x x86_64):
    • ghostscript-library-debuginfo-8.62-47.16.1
    • ghostscript-library-debugsource-8.62-47.16.1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Debuginfo 11-SP3 (i586 s390x x86_64):
    • ghostscript-library-debuginfo-8.62-47.16.1
    • ghostscript-library-debugsource-8.62-47.16.1

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