{"id":"USN-3768-1","summary":"ghostscript vulnerabilities","details":"Tavis Ormandy discovered multiple security issues in Ghostscript. If a user\nor automated system were tricked into processing a specially crafted file,\na remote attacker could possibly use these issues to access arbitrary\nfiles, execute arbitrary code, or cause a denial of 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