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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 RHSA-2018:3761-01 Important Ghostscript Update

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Calendar Grey December 3, 2018
Dist Redhat Esm H88
A significant Ghostscript patch has been released for Red Hat Enterprise Linux to tackle a pressing security vulnerability.
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: incomplete fix for CVE-2018-16509 (CVE-2018-16863)
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.
Bug Fix(es):
* Previously, the flushpage operator has been removed as part of a major clean-up of a non-standard operator. However, flushpage has been found to be used in a few specific use cases. With this update, it has been re-added to support those use cases. (BZ#1654290)

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Topics Covered

security advisory bug fix ghostscript Red Hat Enterprise Linux security impact important update

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-16863 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification#important

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client (v. 7):
Source: ghostscript-9.07-31.el7_6.3.src.rpm
x86_64: ghostscript-9.07-31.el7_6.3.i686.rpm ghostscript-9.07-31.el7_6.3.x86_64.rpm ghostscript-cups-9.07-31.el7_6.3.x86_64.rpm ghostscript-debuginfo-9.07-31.el7_6.3.i686.rpm ghostscript-debuginfo-9.07-31.el7_6.3.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client Optional (v. 7):
noarch: ghostscript-doc-9.07-31.el7_6.3.noarch.rpm
x86_64: ghostscript-debuginfo-9.07-31.el7_6.3.i686.rpm ghostscript-debuginfo-9.07-31.el7_6.3.x86_64.rpm ghostscript-devel-9.07-31.el7_6.3.i686.rpm ghostscript-devel-9.07-31.el7_6.3.x86_64.rpm ghostscript-gtk-9.07-31.el7_6.3.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode (v. 7):
Source: ghostscript-9.07-31.el7_6.3.src.rpm
x86_64: ghostscript-9.07-31.el7_6.3.i686.rpm ghostscript-9.07-31.el7_6.3.x86_64.rpm ghostscript-cups-9.07-31.el7_6.3.x86_64.rpm ghostscript-debuginfo-9.07-31.el7_6.3.i686.rpm ghostscript-debuginfo-9.07-31.el7_6.3.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode Optional (v. 7):
noarch: ghostscript-doc-9.07-31.el7_6.3.noarch.rpm
x86_64: ghostscript-debuginfo-9.07-31.el7_6.3.i686.rpm ghostscript-debuginfo-9.07-31.el7_6.3.x86_64.rpm ghostscript-devel-9.07-31.el7_6.3.i686.rpm ghostscript-devel-9.07-31.el7_6.3.x86_64.rpm ghostscript-gtk-9.07-31.el7_6.3.x86_64.rpm


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Advisory ID: RHSA-2018:3761-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3761
Issue date: 2018-12-03

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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Topics Covered

security advisory bug fix ghostscript Red Hat Enterprise Linux security impact important update

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

1652893 - CVE-2018-16863 ghostscript: incomplete fix for CVE-2018-16509

1654290 - ghostscript update breaks xdvi (gs: Error: /undefined in flushpage) [rhel-7.6.z]

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