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RedHat: RHSA-2020-0222-01 Important Ghostscript Security Fix

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Calendar Grey January 23, 2020
Dist Redhat Esm H88
Crucial Ghostscript security patch released by Red Hat for Enterprise Linux impacts services vulnerable to security threats.
An update for ghostscript is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.0 Update Services for SAP Solutions

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 security update Red Hat ghostscript important 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 E4S (v. 8.0):
Source: ghostscript-9.25-2.el8_0.4.src.rpm
ppc64le: ghostscript-9.25-2.el8_0.4.ppc64le.rpm ghostscript-debuginfo-9.25-2.el8_0.4.ppc64le.rpm ghostscript-debugsource-9.25-2.el8_0.4.ppc64le.rpm ghostscript-gtk-debuginfo-9.25-2.el8_0.4.ppc64le.rpm ghostscript-x11-debuginfo-9.25-2.el8_0.4.ppc64le.rpm libgs-9.25-2.el8_0.4.ppc64le.rpm libgs-debuginfo-9.25-2.el8_0.4.ppc64le.rpm
x86_64: ghostscript-9.25-2.el8_0.4.x86_64.rpm ghostscript-debuginfo-9.25-2.el8_0.4.i686.rpm ghostscript-debuginfo-9.25-2.el8_0.4.x86_64.rpm ghostscript-debugsource-9.25-2.el8_0.4.i686.rpm ghostscript-debugsource-9.25-2.el8_0.4.x86_64.rpm ghostscript-gtk-debuginfo-9.25-2.el8_0.4.i686.rpm ghostscript-gtk-debuginfo-9.25-2.el8_0.4.x86_64.rpm ghostscript-x11-debuginfo-9.25-2.el8_0.4.i686.rpm ghostscript-x11-debuginfo-9.25-2.el8_0.4.x86_64.rpm libgs-9.25-2.el8_0.4.i686.rpm libgs-9.25-2.el8_0.4.x86_64.rpm libgs-debuginfo-9.25-2.el8_0.4.i686.rpm libgs-debuginfo-9.25-2.el8_0.4.x86_64.rpm
These packages are GPG signed by Red Hat for security. Our key and details on how to verify the signature are available from https://access.redhat.com/security/team/key/


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Advisory ID: RHSA-2020:0222-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0222
Issue date: 2020-01-23

Topic

An update for ghostscript is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.0Update Services for SAP Solutions.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 security update Red Hat ghostscript important escape

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream E4S (v. 8.0) - ppc64le, x86_64

Bugs Fixed

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

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