Fedora: 24 Ghostscript Update 2016-53e8aa35f6 Moderate Risk: RCE

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.

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...