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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7: RHSA-2018-3650 Important Ghostscript Update

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Calendar Grey November 27, 2018
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Fedora's recent patch for ImageMagick tackles various vulnerabilities in Enterprise Linux 8. Take a look!
An update for ghostscript is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Summary

The Ghostscript suite contains utilities for rendering PostScript and PDF documents. Ghostscript translates PostScript code to common bitmap formats so that the code can be displayed or printed.
Security Fix(es):
* ghostscript: .tempfile file permission issues (699657) (CVE-2018-15908)
* ghostscript: shading_param incomplete type checking (699660) (CVE-2018-15909)
* ghostscript: missing type check in type checker (699659) (CVE-2018-16511)
* ghostscript: incorrect access checking in temp file handling to disclose contents of files (699658) (CVE-2018-16539)
For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.
Red Hat would like to thank Tavis Ormandy (Google Project Zero) for reporting CVE-2018-15908.

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References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-15908 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-15909 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-16511 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-16539 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client (v. 7):
Source: ghostscript-9.07-31.el7_6.1.src.rpm
x86_64: ghostscript-9.07-31.el7_6.1.i686.rpm ghostscript-9.07-31.el7_6.1.x86_64.rpm ghostscript-cups-9.07-31.el7_6.1.x86_64.rpm ghostscript-debuginfo-9.07-31.el7_6.1.i686.rpm ghostscript-debuginfo-9.07-31.el7_6.1.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client Optional (v. 7):
noarch: ghostscript-doc-9.07-31.el7_6.1.noarch.rpm
x86_64: ghostscript-debuginfo-9.07-31.el7_6.1.i686.rpm ghostscript-debuginfo-9.07-31.el7_6.1.x86_64.rpm ghostscript-devel-9.07-31.el7_6.1.i686.rpm ghostscript-devel-9.07-31.el7_6.1.x86_64.rpm ghostscript-gtk-9.07-31.el7_6.1.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode (v. 7):
Source: ghostscript-9.07-31.el7_6.1.src.rpm
x86_64: ghostscript-9.07-31.el7_6.1.i686.rpm ghostscript-9.07-31.el7_6.1.x86_64.rpm ghostscript-cups-9.07-31.el7_6.1.x86_64.rpm ghostscript-debuginfo-9.07-31.el7_6.1.i686.rpm ghostscript-debuginfo-9.07-31.el7_6.1.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode Optional (v. 7):
noarch: ghostscript-doc-9.07-31.el7_6.1.noarch.rpm
x86_64: ghostscript-debuginfo-9.07-31.el7_6.1.i686.rpm ghostscript-debuginfo-9.07-31.el7_6.1.x86_64.rpm ghostscript-devel-9.07-31.el7_6.1.i686.rpm ghostscript-devel-9.07-31.el7_6.1.x86_64.rpm ghostscript-gtk-9.07-31.el7_6.1.x86_64.rpm


Read the Full Advisory


Severity
important
Lowest
Low
Medium
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Critical

Advisory ID: RHSA-2018:3650-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3650
Issue date: 2018-11-26

Topic

An update for ghostscript is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impactof Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score,which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerabilityfrom the CVE link(s) in the References section.

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Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client (v. 7) - x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client Optional (v. 7) - noarch, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode (v. 7) - x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode Optional (v. 7) - noarch, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7) - ppc64, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional (v. 7) - noarch, ppc64, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 7) - x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation Optional (v. 7) - noarch, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM and IBM Power LE (POWER9) Server (v. 7) - aarch64, ppc64le, s390x

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM and IBM Power LE (POWER9) Server Optional (v. 7) - aarch64, noarch, ppc64le, s390x

Bugs Fixed

1619756 - CVE-2018-15908 ghostscript: .tempfile file permission issues (699657)

1621359 - CVE-2018-16511 ghostscript: missing type check in type checker (699659)

1621361 - CVE-2018-15909 ghostscript: shading_param incomplete type checking (699660)

1625839 - CVE-2018-16539 ghostscript: incorrect access checking in temp file handling to disclose contents of files (699658)

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