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Fedora 27 FEDORA-2018-3247413570 Critical: Ghostscript Out-Of-Bounds Write

fedora
Calendar Grey April 30, 2018
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Critical update released for Ghostscript in Fedora addresses a serious memory corruption flaw. Ensure your system is secure by updating immediately.
Security fix for [CVE-2018-10194](https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2018-10194).

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 urw-base35-fonts

package.

Security fix for

[CVE-2018-10194](https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2018-10194).

* Mon Apr 23 2018 David Kaspar [Dee'Kej] - 9.22-4

- Fix for CVE-2018-10194 added (bug #1569821)

* Mon Dec 4 2017 David Kaspar [Dee'Kej] - 9.22-2

- Fontmap.GS lookup path for Helvetica-Narrow-Bold-Oblique font fixed (bug #1517518)

* Wed Nov 29 2017 Tom Callaway - 9.22-2

- apply post 9.22 upstream commit to restore flushpage operator (xdvi needs it)

[ 1 ] Bug #1569108 - CVE-2018-10194 ghostscript: Stack-based out-of-bounds write in pdf_set_text_matrix function in gdevpdts.c

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1569108

su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2018-3247413570' at the command

line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at

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

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Change Log

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Update Instructions

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Product: Fedora 27
Version: 9.22
Release: 4.fc27
Summary: A PostScript interpreter and renderer

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