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Fedora 28 Update: Ghostscript Security Fix for CVE-2019-6116

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Calendar Grey March 20, 2019
Dist Fedora Esm H88
A critical Ghostscript patch for Fedora 28 mitigates vulnerabilities associated with CVE-2019-6116 and rectifies various bugs with pivotal updates.
- Security fix for CVE-2019-6116 - Fix for bug #1687144 added

Summary

This package provides useful conversion utilities based on Ghostscript software,

for converting PS, PDF and other document formats between each other.

Ghostscript is a suite of software providing an interpreter for Adobe Systems'

PostScript (PS) and Portable Document Format (PDF) page description languages.

Its primary purpose includes displaying (rasterization & rendering) and printing

of document pages, as well as conversions between different document formats.

- Security fix for CVE-2019-6116 - Fix for bug #1687144 added

* Mon Mar 11 2019 Martin Osvald - 9.26-3

- Fix for bug #1687144 added

* Fri Mar 8 2019 Martin Osvald - 9.26-2

- Fix for CVE-2019-6116 added (bug #1668888)

* Thu Feb 7 2019 Martin Osvald - 9.26-1

- rebase to latest upstream version 9.26

- spec change to remove gsdoc.el due to upstream 8bc783cb586

* Mon Sep 17 2018 David Kaspar [Dee'Kej] - 9.25-1

- rebase to latest upstream version to fix additional issues found in 9.24

* Fri Sep 14 2018 David Kaspar [Dee'Kej] - 9.24-3

- ghostscript-9.24-002-icc-PermitReading.patch removed

- ghostscript-9.24-002-fix-for-Canon-and-Kyocera-printers.patch added (bug #1626818)

- ghostscript-9.24-003-CVE-2018-16802.patch added (bug #1627960)

* Fri Sep 7 2018 Tom Callaway - 9.24-2

- add upstream fix for reading in ICC profiles

* Wed Sep 5 2018 David Kaspar [Dee'Kej] - 9.24-1

- rebase to latest upstream version, which contains important CVE fixes

- additional ZER0-DAY fixes added

* Wed Aug 29 2018 David Kaspar [Dee'Kej] - 9.23-7

- ghostscript-9.23-002-fixes-for-set-of-CVEs-reported-by-Google.patch added

* Mon Jul 30 2018 David Kaspar [Dee'Kej] - 9.23-6

- ghostscript-9.23-001-create-GC-descriptors-for-JPEG-passthrough.patch added (bug #1589467)

* Fri Jul 13 2018 Fedora Release Engineering - 9.23-5

- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_29_Mass_Rebuild

* Tue May 15 2018 David Kaspar [Dee'Kej] - 9.23-4

- One more rebuild for libidn ABI fix (BZ#'s 1573961 and 1566414)

* Mon May 14 2018 David Kaspar [Dee'Kej] - 9.23-3

- %conflicts_vers bumped to fix F27->F28 upgrade

* Thu May 10 2018 Stephen Gallagher - 9.23-2.1

- Rebuilding for libidn ABI fix (BZ#'s 1573961 and 1566414)

* Mon Apr 23 2018 David Kaspar [Dee'Kej] - 9.23-2

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

[ 1 ] Bug #1668888 - CVE-2019-6116 ghostscript: subroutines within pseudo-operators must themselves be pseudo-operators (700317) [fedora-all]

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1668888

[ 2 ] Bug #1687144 - transparent png not supported in scribus

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1687144

su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2019-7b9bb0e426' 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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Product: Fedora 28
Version: 9.26
Release: 3.fc28
Summary: Interpreter for PostScript language & PDF

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