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Fedora 29: 2019-7456218f4d Major Ghostscript Buffer Overflow

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Calendar Grey April 27, 2018
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Important security fix for Ghostscript in Fedora mitigates a buffer overflow vulnerability to bolster system protection.
Security fix for [CVE-2018-10194](https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2018-10194).

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

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

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

[ 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-2018-8359498f3c' 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 28
Version: 9.23
Release: 2.fc28
Summary: Interpreter for PostScript language & PDF

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