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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7: RHSA-2019-0633-01 Important Ghostscript Update

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Calendar Grey March 21, 2019
Dist Redhat Esm H88
Ubuntu unveils significant ImageMagick upgrade for server systems, addressing vital vulnerabilities and enhancing stability.
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: superexec operator is available (700585) (CVE-2019-3835)
* ghostscript: forceput in DefineResource is still accessible (700576) (CVE-2019-3838)
For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.
Bug Fix(es):
* ghostscript: Regression: double comment chars '%%' in gs_init.ps leading to missing metadata (BZ#1673915)

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory critical bug fix DoS ghostscript Red Hat Enterprise Linux security impact

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-3835 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-3838 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client (v. 7):
Source: ghostscript-9.07-31.el7_6.10.src.rpm
x86_64: ghostscript-9.07-31.el7_6.10.i686.rpm ghostscript-9.07-31.el7_6.10.x86_64.rpm ghostscript-cups-9.07-31.el7_6.10.x86_64.rpm ghostscript-debuginfo-9.07-31.el7_6.10.i686.rpm ghostscript-debuginfo-9.07-31.el7_6.10.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client Optional (v. 7):
noarch: ghostscript-doc-9.07-31.el7_6.10.noarch.rpm
x86_64: ghostscript-debuginfo-9.07-31.el7_6.10.i686.rpm ghostscript-debuginfo-9.07-31.el7_6.10.x86_64.rpm ghostscript-devel-9.07-31.el7_6.10.i686.rpm ghostscript-devel-9.07-31.el7_6.10.x86_64.rpm ghostscript-gtk-9.07-31.el7_6.10.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode (v. 7):
Source: ghostscript-9.07-31.el7_6.10.src.rpm
x86_64: ghostscript-9.07-31.el7_6.10.i686.rpm ghostscript-9.07-31.el7_6.10.x86_64.rpm ghostscript-cups-9.07-31.el7_6.10.x86_64.rpm ghostscript-debuginfo-9.07-31.el7_6.10.i686.rpm ghostscript-debuginfo-9.07-31.el7_6.10.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode Optional (v. 7):
noarch: ghostscript-doc-9.07-31.el7_6.10.noarch.rpm
x86_64: ghostscript-debuginfo-9.07-31.el7_6.10.i686.rpm ghostscript-debuginfo-9.07-31.el7_6.10.x86_64.rpm ghostscript-devel-9.07-31.el7_6.10.i686.rpm ghostscript-devel-9.07-31.el7_6.10.x86_64.rpm

Read the Full Advisory


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Advisory ID: RHSA-2019:0633-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:0633
Issue date: 2019-03-21

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.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory critical bug fix DoS ghostscript Red Hat Enterprise Linux security impact

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

1677581 - CVE-2019-3838 ghostscript: forceput in DefineResource is still accessible (700576)

1677588 - CVE-2019-3835 ghostscript: superexec operator is available (700585)

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