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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2018-81ee973d7c
2018-09-21 05:19:39.113558
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Name        : ghostscript
Product     : Fedora 29
Version     : 9.24
Release     : 3.fc29
URL         : https://ghostscript.com/
Summary     : Interpreter for PostScript language & PDF
Description :
This package provides useful conversion utilities based on Ghostscript
 software,
for converting PS, PDF and other document formats between each other.

Ghostscript is a suite of software providing an interpreter for Adobe
 Systems'
PostScript (PS) and Portable Document Format (PDF) page description languages.
Its primary purpose includes displaying (rasterization & rendering) and
 printing
of document pages, as well as conversions between different document formats.

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Update Information:

This is a security update for `CVE-2018-16802`. It also fixes a printing
 problem
discovered in one of the previous CVE fixes.  NOTE: *Please, be advised that
there's a separate issue related to printing problems, which is connected
 to
CUPS itself, meaning this update might not completely resolve your printing
issues.*  ----  This is a rebase to latest upstream version of `Ghostscript`,
which fixes several high important CVEs recently discovered. It is advised to
update this version as soon as possible.  ----  Security fix for CVE-2918-15909
and some other bug fixes.
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #1626818 - ghostscript-9.23-6 causes "filter failed" error
 in cups
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1626818
  [ 2 ] Bug #1627960 - CVE-2018-16802 ghostscript: Incorrect "restoration
 of privilege" checking when running out of stack during exception handling [fedora-all]
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1627960
  [ 3 ] Bug #1622757 - CVE-2018-15909 ghostscript: shading_param incomplete
 type checking (699660) [fedora-all]
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1622757
  [ 4 ] Bug #1625852 - CVE-2018-16543 ghostscript: gssetresolution and
 gsgetresolution memory corruption (699670) [fedora-all]
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1625852
  [ 5 ] Bug #1625847 - CVE-2018-16541 ghostscript: incorrect free logic in
 pagedevice replacement (699664) [fedora-all]
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1625847
  [ 6 ] Bug #1625844 - CVE-2018-16540 ghostscript: use-after-free in copydevice
 handling (699661) [fedora-all]
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1625844
  [ 7 ] Bug #1625840 - CVE-2018-16539 ghostscript: incorrect access checking in
 temp file handling to disclose contents of files (699658) [fedora-all]
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1625840
  [ 8 ] Bug #1625837 - CVE-2018-16510 ghostscript: Incorrect exec stack
 handling in the "CS" and "SC" PDF primitives (699671) [fedora-all]
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1625837
  [ 9 ] Bug #1625833 - CVE-2018-15911 ghostscript: uninitialized memory access
 in the aesdecode operator (699665) [fedora-all]
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1625833
  [ 10 ] Bug #1625827 - CVE-2018-16542 ghostscript: .definemodifiedfont memory
 corruption if /typecheck is handled (699668) [fedora-all]
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1625827
  [ 11 ] Bug #1598980 - [abrt] ghostscript: arg_next(): gs killed by SIGSEGV
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1598980
  [ 12 ] Bug #1625108 - Message 'Waiting for job to complete.' stays
 after successful printing
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1625108
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This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use
su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2018-81ee973d7c' at the command
line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at
http://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html#upgrade-command-label

All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key. More details on the
GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at
https://fedoraproject.org/keys
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