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Fedora 31: FEDORA-2019-0a9d525d71 Critical Ghostscript Security Update

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Calendar Grey September 21, 2019
Dist Fedora Esm H88
The latest revision of Ghostscript for Fedora 31 resolves multiple security vulnerabilities highlighted by recent CVEs, alongside various bug resolutions and improvements.
- 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)

[ 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-2019-0a9d525d71' 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 31
Version: 9.27
Release: 1.fc31
Summary: Interpreter for PostScript language & PDF

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