Bug 1390489

Summary:	CVE-2016-7979 ghostscript: Type confusion in .initialize_dsc_parser allows remote code execution [fedora-all]
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Cedric Buissart <cbuissar>
Component:	ghostscript	Assignee:	David Kaspar // Dee'Kej <deekej>
Status:	CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	24	CC:	deekej, twaugh, zdohnal
Target Milestone:	---	Keywords:	Security, SecurityTracking
Target Release:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Fixed In Version:	ghostscript-9.20-5.fc23 ghostscript-9.20-5.fc24 ghostscript-9.20-5.fc25	Doc Type:	Release Note
Doc Text:		Story Points:	---
Clone Of:		Environment:
Last Closed:	2016-11-01 12:56:03 UTC	Type:	---
Regression:	---	Mount Type:	---
Documentation:	---	CRM:
Verified Versions:		Category:	---
oVirt Team:	---	RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host:
Cloudforms Team:	---	Target Upstream Version:
Embargoed:
Bug Depends On:
Bug Blocks:	1382305

Description Cedric Buissart 2016-11-01 08:42:52 UTC

This is an automatically created tracking bug!  It was created to ensure
that one or more security vulnerabilities are fixed in affected versions
of Fedora.

For comments that are specific to the vulnerability please use bugs filed
against the "Security Response" product referenced in the "Blocks" field.

For more information see:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Security/TrackingBugs

When submitting as an update, use the fedpkg template provided in the next
comment(s).  This will include the bug IDs of this tracking bug as well as
the relevant top-level CVE bugs.

Please also mention the CVE IDs being fixed in the RPM changelog and the
fedpkg commit message.

NOTE: this issue affects multiple supported versions of Fedora. While only
one tracking bug has been filed, please correct all affected versions at
the same time.  If you need to fix the versions independent of each other,
you may clone this bug as appropriate.

[bug automatically created by: add-tracking-bugs]

Comment 1 Cedric Buissart 2016-11-01 08:43:01 UTC

Use the following template to for the 'fedpkg update' request to submit an
update for this issue as it contains the top-level parent bug(s) as well as
this tracking bug.  This will ensure that all associated bugs get updated
when new packages are pushed to stable.

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# bugfix, security, enhancement, newpackage (required)
type=security

# testing, stable
request=testing

# Bug numbers: 1234,9876
bugs=1382305,1390489

# Description of your update
notes=Security fix for CVE-2016-7979

# Enable request automation based on the stable/unstable karma thresholds
autokarma=True
stable_karma=3
unstable_karma=-3

# Automatically close bugs when this marked as stable
close_bugs=True

# Suggest that users restart after update
suggest_reboot=False

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Additionally, you may opt to use the bodhi web interface to submit updates:

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/new

Comment 2 David Kaspar // Dee'Kej 2016-11-01 14:09:43 UTC

Commit fixing this CVE:
http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/rpms/ghostscript.git/commit/?id=040b22b22c7cbf