Fedora 37: FEDORA-2023-D0EF677E6F critical DoS Issue in Ghostscript
fedora
August 16, 2023
fix for CVE-2023-38559 (#2225380)
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.
Update Information:
fix for CVE-2023-38559 (#2225380)
Topics Covered
Change Log
* Mon Aug 7 2023 Richard Lescak
References
[ 1 ] Bug #2225380 - TRIAGE-CVE-2023-38559 ghostscript: Out-of-bound read in base/gdevdevn.c:1973 in devn_pcx_write_rle could result in DoS [fedora-all]
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2225380
Update Instructions
This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2023-d0ef677e6f' 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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Name: ghostscript
Product: Fedora 37
Version: 9.56.1
Release: 9.fc37
Summary: Interpreter for PostScript language & PDF
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