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Fedora 29: FEDORA-2019-ebd6c4f15a Critical: Ghostscript Safety Issues

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Calendar Grey September 27, 2019
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Fedora 29 releases Ghostscript security patch, resolving numerous vulnerabilities, improving document processing functions.
- rebase to latest upstream version 9.27 - security fixes added for: - CVE-2019-14811 (bug #1747908) - CVE-2019-14812 (bug #1747907) - CVE-2019-14813 (bug #1747906) - CVE-2019-...

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.

- rebase to latest upstream version 9.27 - security fixes added for: -CVE-2019-14811 (bug #1747908) - CVE-2019-14812 (bug #1747907) -CVE-2019-14813 (bug #1747906) - CVE-2019-14817 (bug #1747909)

* Fri Sep 6 2019 Martin Osvald - 9.27-1

- rebase to latest upstream version 9.27

- security fixes added for:

- CVE-2019-14811 (bug #1747908)

- CVE-2019-14812 (bug #1747907)

- CVE-2019-14813 (bug #1747906)

- CVE-2019-14817 (bug #1747909)

* Mon Aug 12 2019 Martin Osvald - 9.26-5

- Fix for CVE-2019-10216 added

* Fri Mar 22 2019 Martin Osvald - 9.26-4

- Fixes for CVE-2019-3835 and CVE-2019-3838 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

[ 1 ] Bug #1747956 - CVE-2019-3839 ghostscript: missing attack vector protections for CVE-2019-6116 [fedora-all]

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1747956

[ 2 ] Bug #1696192 - ghostscript-9.27 is available

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1696192

[ 3 ] Bug #1747909 - CVE-2019-14817 ghostscript: Safer mode bypass by .forceput exposure in .pdfexectoken and other procedures (701450) [fedora-all]

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1747909

[ 4 ] Bug #1747908 - CVE-2019-14811 ghostscript: Safer mode bypass by .forceput exposure in .pdf_hook_DSC_Creator (701445) [fedora-all]

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1747908

[ 5 ] Bug #1747907 - CVE-2019-14812 ghostscript: Safer mode bypass by .forceput exposure in setuserparams (701444) [fedora-all]

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1747907

[ 6 ] Bug #1747906 - CVE-2019-14813 ghostscript: Safer mode bypass by .forceput exposure in setsystemparams (701443) [fedora-all]

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1747906

su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2019-ebd6c4f15a' 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 29
Version: 9.27
Release: 1.fc29
Summary: Interpreter for PostScript language & PDF

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