Re: Bug#584013: hyperlatex: Security bugs in ghostscript

2010-06-03 Thread Frank Küster
Romain Beauxis wrote: > Le mardi 1 juin 2010 12:12:23, Romain Beauxis a écrit : >> I am not closing but downgrading for mediawiki, unless you prove that there >> is a real security issue. > > Ok, I have looked at the source code. We use dvips to generate the postscript > file. > > Does the iss

Re: Bug#584013: hyperlatex: Security bugs in ghostscript

2010-06-01 Thread Romain Beauxis
Le mardi 1 juin 2010 12:12:23, Romain Beauxis a écrit : > I am not closing but downgrading for mediawiki, unless you prove that there > is a real security issue. Ok, I have looked at the source code. We use dvips to generate the postscript file. Does the issue happen for dvips ? Romain -- T

Re: Bug#584013: hyperlatex: Security bugs in ghostscript

2010-06-01 Thread brian m. carlson
On Tue, Jun 01, 2010 at 06:32:56PM +0200, Vincent Danjean wrote: > Perhaps, gs should have these options enabled by default (and provide other > options to disable them if needed) instead of requiring to modify all > programs. It would secure home-made scripts, too. I agree. I've found (and repor

Re: Bug#584013: hyperlatex: Security bugs in ghostscript

2010-06-01 Thread Romain Beauxis
severity 584021 normal thanks Le mardi 1 juin 2010 06:17:23, paul.sz...@sydney.edu.au a écrit : > > I agree on all points of [Roland Stigge] ... > > Please read my reply to him. Well, I still fail to see why you need to fill RC bugs everywhere. If your rational for filling bugs against all pack

Re: Bug#584013: hyperlatex: Security bugs in ghostscript

2010-06-01 Thread Vincent Danjean
On 01/06/2010 13:10, paul.sz...@sydney.edu.au wrote: >> (4) Please state clearly what's wrong with the package (hyperlatex in >> this case). From the other bug reports I deduce that gs calls should be >> extended with "-P- -dSAFER". This should be done in the hyperlatex >> source package in bin/ps2

Re: Bug#584013: hyperlatex: Security bugs in ghostscript

2010-06-01 Thread paul . szabo
Dear Vincent, > I agree on all points of [Roland Stigge] ... Please read my reply to him. > I'm closing the bug for latex-make unless you come back with facts (or > that discussion on d-d agreeds that all package using gs must be changed). Yes, all users of gs must use the two options -P- and -

Re: Bug#584013: hyperlatex: Security bugs in ghostscript

2010-06-01 Thread paul . szabo
Dear Roland, > (1) If ghostscript has a bug, maybe it should be fixed there instead of > in all gs dependant packages? Yes, but gs says "cannot fix" and "please use -P-". > (2) Mass bug filing (esp. RC/security) is generally not a great idea, > especially if > (3) You haven't checked the individ

Re: Bug#584013: hyperlatex: Security bugs in ghostscript

2010-06-01 Thread Vincent Danjean
Hi, On 01/06/2010 10:31, Roland Stigge wrote: > Hi, > > On 06/01/2010 03:10 AM, Paul Szabo wrote: >> This package depends on ghostscript, and may be affected. Please >> evaluate the security of this package, and fix if needed. > > There are several issues with this bug: > > (1) If ghostscript ha

Re: Bug#584013: hyperlatex: Security bugs in ghostscript

2010-06-01 Thread Roland Stigge
Hi, On 06/01/2010 03:10 AM, Paul Szabo wrote: > This package depends on ghostscript, and may be affected. Please > evaluate the security of this package, and fix if needed. There are several issues with this bug: (1) If ghostscript has a bug, maybe it should be fixed there instead of in all gs d