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Fedora 24: 2017-9a13090378 Moderate: Ghostscript Null Pointer Threat

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Calendar Grey April 19, 2017
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Fedora 24 has received a Ghostscript security patch to resolve vulnerabilities linked to CVE-2017-7207, which involves risks associated with null pointer dereferencing.
Security fix for [CVE-2017-7207](https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1434353).

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.

Security fix for

[CVE-2017-7207](https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1434353).

[ 1 ] Bug #1434497 - CVE-2017-7207 ghostscript: Null pointer dereference in mem_get_bits_rectangle() [fedora-all]

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1434497

su -c 'dnf upgrade ghostscript' at the command line.

For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at

https://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html

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/security/

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Product: Fedora 24
Version: 9.20
Release: 7.fc24
Summary: A PostScript interpreter and renderer

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