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Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2019 09:49:19 +0200
From: Cedric Buissart <cbuissar@...hat.com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: ghostscript CVE-2019-10216: -dSAFER escape via .buildfont1
On Mon, Aug 12, 2019 at 4:48 PM Bob Friesenhahn
<bfriesen@...ple.dallas.tx.us> wrote:
>
> Is it known if this issue also impacts the PDF reader? I see that the
> involved code is Resource/Init/gs_type1.ps which is presumably related
> to Postscript Type 1 fonts, which might be included in a PDF file.
My personal experience so far is that vulnerabilities requiring to
modify error handlers do not work when embedded in a PDF.
That being said, maybe I do it wrong and there might be other ways.
I didn't have an attempt with that one so far.
>
> Bob
> --
> Bob Friesenhahn
> bfriesen@...ple.dallas.tx.us, http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/
> GraphicsMagick Maintainer, http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/
> Public Key, http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/public-key.txt
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Cedric Buissart,
Product Security
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