On Thu, Oct 27, 2016 at 12:35:16PM +0200, Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 27, 2016 at 06:31:43AM -0400, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote:
> > On Thu, Oct 27, 2016 at 08:54:39AM +0200, Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote:
> > > 
> > > Salvatore mentioned that the same bug occurs when unstable has the 
> > > security 
> > > patches merged (which hasn't happened so far :-/), so this needs to be 
> > > reported
> > > upstream.
> > > 
> > Would that be to ghostscript upstream?  I guess that with seeing the
> > evince problem in Jessie with both ghostscript 9.06~dfsg-2+deb8u2 and
> > 9.06~dfsg-2+deb8u3 I wasn't certain that the fault is completely with
> > ghostscript.
> 
> I haven't debugged this myself, but my guess is that libspectre relies/relied
> on the insecure ghostscript behaviour which got patches with the security
> fixes...
> 
OK.  That makes sense.  Thanks for clarifying.

Regards,

-Roberto

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