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Fedora 35: 2022-d287230630 Critical: Ghostscript Null Pointer Issue

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Calendar Grey August 9, 2022
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Ghostscript 9.56.1 released for Fedora 35 resolves a significant null pointer dereference vulnerability, bolstering security measures.
Rebase to new gs version 9.56.1 (#2072297)

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 new gs version 9.56.1 (#2072297)

* Mon Aug 1 2022 Richard Lescak - 9.56.1-1

- Rebase to new gs version 9.56.1 (#2072297)

[ 1 ] Bug #2095261 - CVE-2022-2085 ghostscript: Null pointer dereference in gx_default_create_buf_device()

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2095261

su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2022-d287230630' 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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GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at

https://fedoraproject.org/security/

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Product: Fedora 35
Version: 9.56.1
Release: 1.fc35
Summary: Interpreter for PostScript language & PDF

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