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Rocky Linux: RLSA-2023:5459 ghostscript security update

October 6, 2023
An update is available for ghostscript. This update affects Rocky Linux 9. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE list

Summary

An update is available for ghostscript. This update affects Rocky Linux 9. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE list


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: vulnerable to OS command injection due to mishandles permission validation for pipe devices (CVE-2023-36664) 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.

RPMs

ghostscript-0:9.54.0-10.el9_2.aarch64.rpm

ghostscript-0:9.54.0-10.el9_2.src.rpm

ghostscript-debuginfo-0:9.54.0-10.el9_2.aarch64.rpm

ghostscript-debugsource-0:9.54.0-10.el9_2.aarch64.rpm

ghostscript-doc-0:9.54.0-10.el9_2.noarch.rpm

ghostscript-tools-dvipdf-0:9.54.0-10.el9_2.aarch64.rpm

ghostscript-tools-fonts-0:9.54.0-10.el9_2.aarch64.rpm

ghostscript-tools-printing-0:9.54.0-10.el9_2.aarch64.rpm

ghostscript-x11-0:9.54.0-10.el9_2.aarch64.rpm

ghostscript-x11-debuginfo-0:9.54.0-10.el9_2.aarch64.rpm

libgs-0:9.54.0-10.el9_2.aarch64.rpm

libgs-debuginfo-0:9.54.0-10.el9_2.aarch64.rpm

libgs-devel-0:9.54.0-10.el9_2.aarch64.rpm

References

No References

CVEs

https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2023-36664

Severity
Name: RLSA-2023:5459
Affected Products: Rocky Linux 9

Fixes

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2217798


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