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Fedora 11 Advisory: Ghostscript 8.70-1 Moderate PostScript Update

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Calendar Grey August 20, 2009
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Upgrade your PostScript processing and strengthen security measures by applying the most recent Ghostscript patch on Fedora 11.
This updates ghostscript to the latest stable release.

Summary

Ghostscript is a set of software that provides a PostScript

interpreter, a set of C procedures (the Ghostscript library, which

implements the graphics capabilities in the PostScript language) and

an interpreter for Portable Document Format (PDF) files. Ghostscript

translates PostScript code into many common, bitmapped formats, like

those understood by your printer or screen. Ghostscript is normally

used to display PostScript files and to print PostScript files to

non-PostScript printers.

If you need to display PostScript files or print them to

non-PostScript printers, you should install ghostscript. If you

install ghostscript, you also need to install the ghostscript-fonts

package.

Update Information:

This updates ghostscript to the latest stable release.

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Change Log

* Mon Aug 3 2009 Tim Waugh 8.70-1 - 8.70. - License has changed to GPLv3+. Packages containing programs that link to libgs/libijs are: - foomatic (GPLv2+) - libspectre (GPLv2+) - ImageMagick (ImageMagick, listed on Licensing wiki page under "Good Licenses" and marked as GPLv3 compat) - gutenprint (GPLv2+) * Mon Aug 3 2009 Tim Waugh 8.64-12 - Moved examples to doc subpackage (bug #515167). - Converted spec file to UTF-8. * Thu Jul 30 2009 Tim Waugh 8.64-11 - Fixed CVE-2009-0583,0584 patch by using 255 as the maximum number of points, not 100, and by not treating a missing black point tag as an error (bug #487744). * Thu Jul 30 2009 Rex Dieter - 8.64-10 - License: GPLv2 and Redistributable, no modification permitted (bug #487510) * Fri Jul 24 2009 Fedora Release Engineering - 8.64-9 - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_12_Mass_Rebuild * Wed Jun 10 2009 Tim Waugh 8.64-8 - Fix scripts so they don't get broken on install (bug #502550). * Thu Jun 4 2009 Tim Waugh 8.64-7 - Applied patch to fix NULL dereference in JBIG2 decoder (bug #503995).

References


[ 1 ] Bug #503992 - Ghostscript: Multiple NULL pointer dereferences in JBIG2 decoder [F11] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=503992

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update ghostscript' at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum", available at .

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Name: ghostscript
Product: Fedora 11
Version: 8.70
Release: 1.fc11
URL: https://www.ghostscript.com/
Summary: A PostScript interpreter and renderer.

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