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Fedora 29: 2019-077a3f23c0 Critical: Ghostscript Access Bypass and Fixes

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Calendar Grey February 12, 2019
Dist Fedora Esm H88
The recent Fedora 29 upgrade tackles numerous vulnerabilities present in ghostscript. It's important to implement these updates to maintain the integrity of your system.
- rebase to latest upstream version 9.26 - Security fix for CVE-2018-19478 CVE-2018-19134 CVE-2018-19477 CVE-2018-19476 CVE-2018-19475 CVE-2018-19409 CVE-2018-18284 CVE-2018-18073 ...

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 9.26 - Security fix for CVE-2018-19478

CVE-2018-19134 CVE-2018-19477 CVE-2018-19476 CVE-2018-19475 CVE-2018-19409

CVE-2018-18284 CVE-2018-18073 CVE-2018-17961

* 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 #1656319 - CVE-2018-19478 ghostscript: Attempting to open a carefully crafted PDF file results in long-running computation (699856) [fedora-all]

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1656319

[ 2 ] Bug #1656320 - CVE-2018-19134 ghostscript: Type confusion in setpattern (700141) [fedora-all]

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1656320

[ 3 ] Bug #1658244 - [abrt] ghostscript: SkipPage(): gs killed by SIGSEGV

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1658244

[ 4 ] Bug #1654470 - CVE-2018-19477 ghostscript: access bypass in psi/zfjbig2.c (700168) [fedora-all]

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1654470

[ 5 ] Bug #1654465 - CVE-2018-19476 ghostscript: access bypass in psi/zicc.c [fedora-all]

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1654465

[ 6 ] Bug #1654460 - CVE-2018-19475 ghostscript: access bypass in psi/zdevice2.c (700153) [fedora-all]

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1654460

[ 7 ] Bug #1652584 - CVE-2018-19409 ghostscript: Improperly implemented security check in zsetdevice function in psi/zdevice.c [fedora-all]

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1652584

[ 8 ] Bug #1642943 - CVE-2018-18284 ghostscript: 1Policy operator allows a sandbox protection bypass [fedora-all]

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1642943

[ 9 ] Bug #1642585 - CVE-2018-18073 ghostscript: Saved execution stacks can leak operator arrays [fedora-all]

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1642585

[ 10 ] Bug #1642579 - CVE-2018-17961 ghostscript: saved execution stacks can leak operator arrays (incomplete fix for CVE-2018-17183) [fedora-all]

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1642579

[ 11 ] Bug #1663896 - GS fails to process many EPS files - Error: /nocurrentpoint in --currentpoint-- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1663896

su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2019-077a3f23c0' at the command

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

http://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html#upgrade-command-label

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Product: Fedora 29
Version: 9.26
Release: 1.fc29
Summary: Interpreter for PostScript language & PDF

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