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Fedora 29: 2019-15d57af79a Critical: Ghostscript CVE-2019-6116

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Calendar Grey March 21, 2019
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Fedora 29 has released a security patch for Ghostscript related to CVE-2019-6116, including various other bug resolutions.
- 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

[ 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-2019-15d57af79a' 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: 9.26
Release: 3.fc29
Summary: Interpreter for PostScript language & PDF

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