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Date: Sun, 30 May 2010 21:52:56 +0200
From: Florian Weimer <fw@...eb.enyo.de>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: CVE request: ghostscript and gv
* Bernhard R. Link:
> * Ludwig Nussel <ludwig.nussel@...e.de> [100528 12:05]:
>> Upstream suggested to use -P- in addition to -dSAFER.
>
> Either I mix something up or that option does not even help:
>
> With the Debian lenny version I get:
>
> $ touch gs_init.ps
> $ /usr/bin/gs -P- notneeded.ps
> GPL Ghostscript 8.62: Initialization file gs_init.ps does not begin with an integer.
"gs -P- -DSAFER gs_init.ps" works, too, so you can inject the payload
with file-name-preserving user agents. 8-(
Is the general consensus that we should patch this in
viewers/Ghostscript wrappers, and not Ghostscript itself?
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