Ghostscript, an open-source interpreter for PostScript language and PDF files widely used in Linux, has been found vulnerable to a critical-severity remote code execution flaw.

bleepingcomputer.com/news/secu

@BleepingComputer I’m adding that to its sins, right alongside the fact that gs keeps not being the alias for git status on new machines because I…. Forget to set it up as the alias for git status on new machines I’m using. ;)

(… seriously though, gs is a super-small name for them to have squatted for a command line tool you nearly never need to type by hand).

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