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Fedora 39 FEDORA-2024-c45c747f02 Critical: Ghostscript Security Threat

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Calendar Grey July 9, 2024
Dist Fedora Esm H88
The latest security bulletin for Ghostscript pertains to Fedora 39, emphasizing crucial patches and identified weaknesses.
Security fixes for CVE-2024-33870, CVE-2024-29510 Fix for issues in gating Security fix for CVE-2024-33871

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:

Security fixes for CVE-2024-33870, CVE-2024-29510 Fix for issues in gating Security fix for CVE-2024-33871

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Topics Covered

security advisory update critical Fedora execution risk path traversal Ghostscript

Change Log

* Thu Jun 27 2024 Zdenek Dohnal - 10.02.1-5 - 2293951 - CVE-2024-29510 ghostscript: format string injection leads to shell command execution (SAFER bypass) - 2293960 - CVE-2024-33870 ghostscript: path traversal to arbitrary files if the current directory is in the permitted paths * Tue Jun 18 2024 Zdenek Dohnal - 10.02.1-4 - backport Michael's fixes from F40 * Fri Jun 14 2024 Zdenek Dohnal - 10.02.1-3 - 2283509 - CVE-2024-33871 ghostscript: OPVP device arbitrary code execution via custom Driver library

References


[ 1 ] Bug #2283508 - CVE-2024-33871 ghostscript: OPVP device arbitrary code execution via custom Driver library https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2283508 [ 2 ] Bug #2293950 - CVE-2024-29510 ghostscript: format string injection leads to shell command execution (SAFER bypass) https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2293950 [ 3 ] Bug #2293959 - CVE-2024-33870 ghostscript: path traversal to arbitrary files if the current directory is in the permitted paths https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2293959

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2024-c45c747f02' at the command line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at http://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html#upgrade-command-label

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Name: ghostscript
Product: Fedora 39
Version: 10.02.1
Release: 5.fc39
URL: https://ghostscript.com/
Summary: Interpreter for PostScript language & PDF

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Topics Covered

security advisory update critical Fedora execution risk path traversal Ghostscript

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