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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7: RHSA-2019:2281-01 Low: Ghostscript Security Fix

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Calendar Grey August 6, 2019
Dist Redhat Esm H88
An upgrade for ghostscript on CentOS 7 introduces a slight-risk security patch along with various improvements.
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.
The following packages have been upgraded to a later upstream version: ghostscript (9.25). (BZ#1636115)
Security Fix(es):
* ghostscript: status command permitted with -dSAFER in psi/zfile.c allowing attackers to identify the size and existence of files (CVE-2018-11645)
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.
Additional Changes:
For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.7 Release Notes linked from the References section.

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Topics Covered

security advisory security update bug fix ghostscript Red Hat Enterprise Linux low severity

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-11645 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification#low https://docs.redhat.com/en/documentation/red_hat_enterprise_linux/7/html/7.7_release_notes/index

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client (v. 7):
Source: ghostscript-9.25-2.el7.src.rpm
x86_64: ghostscript-9.25-2.el7.i686.rpm ghostscript-9.25-2.el7.x86_64.rpm ghostscript-cups-9.25-2.el7.x86_64.rpm ghostscript-debuginfo-9.25-2.el7.i686.rpm ghostscript-debuginfo-9.25-2.el7.x86_64.rpm libgs-9.25-2.el7.i686.rpm libgs-9.25-2.el7.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client Optional (v. 7):
noarch: ghostscript-doc-9.25-2.el7.noarch.rpm
x86_64: ghostscript-debuginfo-9.25-2.el7.i686.rpm ghostscript-debuginfo-9.25-2.el7.x86_64.rpm ghostscript-gtk-9.25-2.el7.x86_64.rpm libgs-devel-9.25-2.el7.i686.rpm libgs-devel-9.25-2.el7.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode (v. 7):
Source: ghostscript-9.25-2.el7.src.rpm
x86_64: ghostscript-9.25-2.el7.i686.rpm ghostscript-9.25-2.el7.x86_64.rpm ghostscript-cups-9.25-2.el7.x86_64.rpm ghostscript-debuginfo-9.25-2.el7.i686.rpm ghostscript-debuginfo-9.25-2.el7.x86_64.rpm libgs-9.25-2.el7.i686.rpm libgs-9.25-2.el7.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode Optional (v. 7):
noarch: ghostscript-doc-9.25-2.el7.noarch.rpm
x86_64: ghostscript-debuginfo-9.25-2.el7.i686.rpm ghostscript-debuginfo-9.25-2.el7.x86_64.rpm ghostscript-gtk-9.25-2.el7.x86_64.rpm libgs-devel-9.25-2.el7.i686.rpm libgs-devel-9.25-2.el7.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7):


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Advisory ID: RHSA-2019:2281-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2281
Issue date: 2019-08-06

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 Low. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, whichgives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability fromthe CVE link(s) in the References section.

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Topics Covered

security advisory security update bug fix ghostscript Red Hat Enterprise Linux low severity

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

Bugs Fixed

1585914 - CVE-2018-11645 ghostscript: status command permitted with -dSAFER in psi/zfile.c allowing attackers to identify the size and existence of files

1653706 - ps2pdf fails after fontconfig upgrade in RHEL 7.6

1654045 - ghostscript update breaks xdvi (gs: Error: /undefined in flushpage)

1657694 - ghostscript: Regression: Warning: Dropping incorrect smooth shading object (Error: /rangecheck in --run--)

1661210 - ghostscript: Regression: pdf2ps reports an error when reading from stdin (Error: /invalidfileaccess in --run--)

1669611 - ghostscript: Regression: SEGV in names_ref on converting faulty PS to PDF

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