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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2018-81ee973d7c
2018-09-21 05:19:39.113558
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Name : ghostscript
Product : Fedora 29
Version : 9.24
Release : 3.fc29
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 update for `CVE-2018-16802`. It also fixes a printing problem
discovered in one of the previous CVE fixes. NOTE: *Please, be advised that
there’s a separate issue related to printing problems, which is connected to
CUPS itself, meaning this update might not completely resolve your printing
issues.* —- This is a rebase to latest upstream version of `Ghostscript`,
which fixes several high important CVEs recently discovered. It is advised to
update this version as soon as possible. —- Security fix for CVE-2918-15909
and some other bug fixes.
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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
[ 3 ] Bug #1622757 – CVE-2018-15909 ghostscript: shading_param incomplete type checking (699660) [fedora-all]
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1622757
[ 4 ] Bug #1625852 – CVE-2018-16543 ghostscript: gssetresolution and gsgetresolution memory corruption (699670) [fedora-all]
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1625852
[ 5 ] Bug #1625847 – CVE-2018-16541 ghostscript: incorrect free logic in pagedevice replacement (699664) [fedora-all]
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1625847
[ 6 ] Bug #1625844 – CVE-2018-16540 ghostscript: use-after-free in copydevice handling (699661) [fedora-all]
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1625844
[ 7 ] Bug #1625840 – CVE-2018-16539 ghostscript: incorrect access checking in temp file handling to disclose contents of files (699658) [fedora-all]
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1625840
[ 8 ] Bug #1625837 – CVE-2018-16510 ghostscript: Incorrect exec stack handling in the “CS” and “SC” PDF primitives (699671) [fedora-all]
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1625837
[ 9 ] Bug #1625833 – CVE-2018-15911 ghostscript: uninitialized memory access in the aesdecode operator (699665) [fedora-all]
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1625833
[ 10 ] Bug #1625827 – CVE-2018-16542 ghostscript: .definemodifiedfont memory corruption if /typecheck is handled (699668) [fedora-all]
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1625827
[ 11 ] Bug #1598980 – [abrt] ghostscript: arg_next(): gs killed by SIGSEGV
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1598980
[ 12 ] Bug #1625108 – Message ‘Waiting for job to complete.’ stays after successful printing
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1625108
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This update can be installed with the “dnf” update program. Use
su -c ‘dnf upgrade –advisory FEDORA-2018-81ee973d7c’ 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
All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key. More details on the
GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at
https://fedoraproject.org/keys
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