Fedora 38: FEDORA-2023-fbf86d8916 Critical: Ghostscript Buffer Overflow

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-2023-28879 ---- set 'a4' as a default in gs_init.ps to

fix unrecognized 'Letter' page size (#2183166)

* Thu Apr 6 2023 Richard Lescak - 10.01.0-3

- fix for CVE-2023-28879 (#2184586)

- add patch for converting default page name to lowercase (#2183166)

* Mon Apr 3 2023 Richard Lescak - 10.01.0-2

- set 'a4' as a default in gs_init.ps to fix unrecognized 'Letter' page size (#2183166)

[ 1 ] Bug #2184585 - CVE-2023-28879 ghostscript: buffer overflow in base/sbcp.c leading to data corruption

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2184585

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https://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html

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