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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2018-56221eb24b
2018-09-11 16:50:57.490096
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Name : ghostscript
Product : Fedora 28
Version : 9.24
Release : 1.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 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.
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ChangeLog:
* Wed Sep 5 2018 David Kaspar [Dee'Kej] <dkaspar(a)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(a)redhat.com> - 9.23-6
- ghostscript-9.23-002-fixes-for-set-of-CVEs-reported-by-Google.patch added
* Mon Jul 30 2018 David Kaspar [Dee'Kej] <dkaspar(a)redhat.com> - 9.23-5
- ghostscript-9.23-001-create-GC-descriptors-for-JPEG-passthrough.patch added (bug
#1589467)
* Tue May 15 2018 David Kaspar [Dee'Kej] <dkaspar(a)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(a)redhat.com> - 9.23-3
- %conflicts_vers bumped to fix F27->F28 upgrade
* Thu May 10 2018 Stephen Gallagher <sgallagh(a)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(a)redhat.com> - 9.23-2
- Fix for CVE-2018-10194 added (bug #1569821)
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References:
[ 1 ] Bug #1625852 - CVE-2018-16543 ghostscript: gssetresolution and gsgetresolution
memory corruption (699670) [fedora-all]
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1625852
[ 2 ] Bug #1625847 - CVE-2018-16541 ghostscript: incorrect free logic in pagedevice
replacement (699664) [fedora-all]
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1625847
[ 3 ] Bug #1625844 - CVE-2018-16540 ghostscript: use-after-free in copydevice handling
(699661) [fedora-all]
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1625844
[ 4 ] 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
[ 5 ] 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
[ 6 ] 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
[ 7 ] 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
[ 8 ] Bug #1625108 - Message 'Waiting for job to complete.' stays after
successful printing
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1625108
[ 9 ] Bug #1622757 - CVE-2018-15909 ghostscript: shading_param incomplete type checking
(699660) [fedora-all]
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1622757
[ 10 ] Bug #1598980 - [abrt] ghostscript: arg_next(): gs killed by SIGSEGV
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1598980
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This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use
su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2018-56221eb24b' 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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