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This content was generated utilizing AI tools in conjunction with data from https://cmetaxonomy.org. Customers are advised to independently evaluate and test these temporary mitigations within their own infrastructure.\n\nThe highest-value action is to eliminate privileged .forceput operations in the .charkeys procedure to enforce -dSAFER sandbox boundaries: upgrade to the fixed Ghostscript builds, which replace .forceput invocations with standard put operations in the /.charkeys procedure in Resource/Init/gs_ttf.ps, closing all 2 injection vectors (crafted PostScript document, malicious TrueType font processing). Until patched, this is a concern on Ghostscript on Linux (RHEL 8) processing untrusted input, such as print or document-conversion services, so Restrict or halt processing of untrusted PostScript documents and TrueType font inputs across document-conversion and printing services that invoke Ghostscript. 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This content was generated utilizing AI tools in conjunction with data from https://cmetaxonomy.org. Customers are advised to independently evaluate and test these temporary mitigations within their own infrastructure.\n\nThe highest-value action is to eliminate privileged .forceput operations in the .charkeys procedure to enforce -dSAFER sandbox boundaries: upgrade to the fixed Ghostscript builds, which replace .forceput invocations with standard put operations in the /.charkeys procedure in Resource/Init/gs_ttf.ps, closing all 2 injection vectors (crafted PostScript document, malicious TrueType font processing). Until patched, this is a concern on Ghostscript on Linux (RHEL 8) processing untrusted input, such as print or document-conversion services, so Restrict or halt processing of untrusted PostScript documents and TrueType font inputs across document-conversion and printing services that invoke Ghostscript. As a compensating measure, Use auditd to log unauthorized file access attempts and unexpected execve syscalls spawned by the Ghostscript process, Run SELinux in enforcing mode to confine the Ghostscript process to a restricted domain, Use Linux mount and PID namespaces to restrict filesystem and process visibility for Ghostscript execution, Deploy an EDR agent to detect and terminate unexpected shell or child process spawns from Ghostscript, and Use Falco or eBPF runtime security to detect anomalous child process execution and unauthorized file reads. 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This content was generated utilizing AI tools in conjunction with data from https://cmetaxonomy.org. Customers are advised to independently evaluate and test these temporary mitigations within their own infrastructure.\n\nThe highest-value action is to eliminate privileged .forceput operations in the .charkeys procedure to enforce -dSAFER sandbox boundaries: upgrade to the fixed Ghostscript builds, which replace .forceput invocations with standard put operations in the /.charkeys procedure in Resource/Init/gs_ttf.ps, closing all 2 injection vectors (crafted PostScript document, malicious TrueType font processing). Until patched, this is a concern on Ghostscript on Linux (RHEL 8) processing untrusted input, such as print or document-conversion services, so Restrict or halt processing of untrusted PostScript documents and TrueType font inputs across document-conversion and printing services that invoke Ghostscript. 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