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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 RHSA-2019-3890 Critical: Ghostscript Escape Flaw

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Calendar Grey November 14, 2019
Dist Redhat Esm H88
Security update for Ghostscript on Red Hat Enterprise Linux categorized as Critical, addressing vulnerabilities and patching CVE-2019-14869.
An update for ghostscript is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important

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: -dSAFER escape in .charkeys (701841) (CVE-2019-14869)
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.

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Topics Covered

security advisory update red hat ghostscript important security impact escape

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-14869 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification#important

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8):
Source: ghostscript-9.25-5.el8_1.1.src.rpm
aarch64: ghostscript-9.25-5.el8_1.1.aarch64.rpm ghostscript-debuginfo-9.25-5.el8_1.1.aarch64.rpm ghostscript-debugsource-9.25-5.el8_1.1.aarch64.rpm ghostscript-gtk-debuginfo-9.25-5.el8_1.1.aarch64.rpm ghostscript-x11-debuginfo-9.25-5.el8_1.1.aarch64.rpm libgs-9.25-5.el8_1.1.aarch64.rpm libgs-debuginfo-9.25-5.el8_1.1.aarch64.rpm
ppc64le: ghostscript-9.25-5.el8_1.1.ppc64le.rpm ghostscript-debuginfo-9.25-5.el8_1.1.ppc64le.rpm ghostscript-debugsource-9.25-5.el8_1.1.ppc64le.rpm ghostscript-gtk-debuginfo-9.25-5.el8_1.1.ppc64le.rpm ghostscript-x11-debuginfo-9.25-5.el8_1.1.ppc64le.rpm libgs-9.25-5.el8_1.1.ppc64le.rpm libgs-debuginfo-9.25-5.el8_1.1.ppc64le.rpm
s390x: ghostscript-9.25-5.el8_1.1.s390x.rpm ghostscript-debuginfo-9.25-5.el8_1.1.s390x.rpm ghostscript-debugsource-9.25-5.el8_1.1.s390x.rpm ghostscript-gtk-debuginfo-9.25-5.el8_1.1.s390x.rpm ghostscript-x11-debuginfo-9.25-5.el8_1.1.s390x.rpm libgs-9.25-5.el8_1.1.s390x.rpm libgs-debuginfo-9.25-5.el8_1.1.s390x.rpm
x86_64: ghostscript-9.25-5.el8_1.1.x86_64.rpm ghostscript-debuginfo-9.25-5.el8_1.1.i686.rpm ghostscript-debuginfo-9.25-5.el8_1.1.x86_64.rpm

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Advisory ID: RHSA-2019:3890-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:3890
Issue date: 2019-11-14

Topic

An update for ghostscript is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

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Topics Covered

security advisory update red hat ghostscript important security impact escape

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder (v. 8) - aarch64, noarch, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8) - aarch64, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

Bugs Fixed

1768911 - CVE-2019-14869 ghostscript: -dSAFER escape in .charkeys (701841)

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