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fedora
Calendar Grey October 19, 2016
Dist Fedora Esm H88
The rebase of Ghostscript 9.20 in Fedora rectifies several vulnerabilities, notably those concerning remote code execution and various usage anomalies.
This is a rebase of **ghostscript** package, to address several security issues: * [CVE-2016-7977 ](https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1380415) - *.libfile does not honor ...

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 is a rebase of **ghostscript** package, to address several security issues: * [CVE-2016-7977 ](https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1380415) - *.libfile does not honor -dSAFER* * [CVE-2013-5653](https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1380327) - *getenv and filenameforall ignore -dSAFER* * [CVE-2016-7976](https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1382294) - *various userparams allow %pipe% in paths, allowing remote shell* * [CVE-2016-7978](https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1382300) - *reference leak in .setdevice allows use-after-free and remote code* * [CVE-2016-7979](https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1382305) - *Type confusion in .initialize_dsc_parser allows remote code execution* ----------- #### INFORMATION FOR FEDORA PACKAGERS & MAINTAINERS: **ghostscript** has been rebased to latest upstream version (9.20). Rebase notes: * **no API/ABI changes between versions 9.16 -> 9.20 according to upstream** * *OpenJPEG* support has bee...

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Change Log

References


[ 1 ] Bug #1380415 - CVE-2016-7977 ghostscript: .libfile does not honor -dSAFER https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1380415 [ 2 ] Bug #1380327 - CVE-2013-5653 ghostscript: getenv and filenameforall ignore -dSAFER https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1380327 [ 3 ] Bug #1382294 - CVE-2016-7976 ghostscript: various userparams allow %pipe% in paths, allowing remote shell https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1382294 [ 4 ] Bug #1382300 - CVE-2016-7978 ghostscript: reference leak in .setdevice allows use-after-free and remote code execution https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1382300 [ 5 ] Bug #1382305 - CVE-2016-7979 ghostscript: Type confusion in .initialize_dsc_parser allows remote code execution https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1382305

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 23
Version: 9.20
Release: 2.fc23
Summary: A PostScript interpreter and renderer

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