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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2018-c39ae23dc8
2018-09-17 03:54:20.308094
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Name : ghostscript
Product : Fedora 28
Version : 9.24
Release : 3.fc28
URL : https://ghostscript.com/
Summary : Interpreter for PostScript language & PDF
Description :
This package provides useful conversion utilities based on Ghostscript software,
for converting PS, PDF and other document formats between each other.

Ghostscript is a suite of software providing an interpreter for Adobe Systems’
PostScript (PS) and Portable Document Format (PDF) page description languages.
Its primary purpose includes displaying (rasterization & rendering) and printing
of document pages, as well as conversions between different document formats.

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Update Information:

This is a security fix for `CVE-2018-16802`. It also fixes a printing problem
discovered in one of the previous CVE fixes.
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ChangeLog:

* Fri Sep 14 2018 David Kaspar [Dee’Kej] <dkaspar@redhat.com> – 9.24-3
– ghostscript-9.24-002-icc-PermitReading.patch removed
– ghostscript-9.24-002-fix-for-Canon-and-Kyocera-printers.patch added (bug #1626818)
– ghostscript-9.24-003-CVE-2018-16802.patch added (bug #1627960)
* Fri Sep 7 2018 Tom Callaway <spot@fedoraproject.org> – 9.24-2
– add upstream fix for reading in ICC profiles
* Wed Sep 5 2018 David Kaspar [Dee’Kej] <dkaspar@redhat.com> – 9.24-1
– rebase to latest upstream version, which contains important CVE fixes
– additional ZER0-DAY fixes added
* Wed Aug 29 2018 David Kaspar [Dee’Kej] <dkaspar@redhat.com> – 9.23-7
– ghostscript-9.23-002-fixes-for-set-of-CVEs-reported-by-Google.patch added
* Mon Jul 30 2018 David Kaspar [Dee’Kej] <dkaspar@redhat.com> – 9.23-6
– ghostscript-9.23-001-create-GC-descriptors-for-JPEG-passthrough.patch added (bug #1589467)
* Fri Jul 13 2018 Fedora Release Engineering <releng@fedoraproject.org> – 9.23-5
– Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_29_Mass_Rebuild
* Tue May 15 2018 David Kaspar [Dee’Kej] <dkaspar@redhat.com> – 9.23-4
– One more rebuild for libidn ABI fix (BZ#’s 1573961 and 1566414)
* Mon May 14 2018 David Kaspar [Dee’Kej] <dkaspar@redhat.com> – 9.23-3
– %conflicts_vers bumped to fix F27->F28 upgrade
* Thu May 10 2018 Stephen Gallagher <sgallagh@redhat.com> – 9.23-2.1
– Rebuilding for libidn ABI fix (BZ#’s 1573961 and 1566414)
* Mon Apr 23 2018 David Kaspar [Dee’Kej] <dkaspar@redhat.com> – 9.23-2
– Fix for CVE-2018-10194 added (bug #1569821)
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References:

[ 1 ] Bug #1626818 – ghostscript-9.23-6 causes “filter failed” error in cups
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1626818
[ 2 ] Bug #1627960 – CVE-2018-16802 ghostscript: Incorrect “restoration of privilege” checking when running out of stack during exception handling [fedora-all]
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1627960
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This update can be installed with the “dnf” update program. Use
su -c ‘dnf upgrade –advisory FEDORA-2018-c39ae23dc8’ at the command
line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at
http://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html#upgrade-command-label

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https://fedoraproject.org/keys
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