Oval Definition:oval:com.redhat.rhsa:def:20183650
Revision Date:2018-11-27Version:639
Title:RHSA-2018:3650: ghostscript security update (Important)
Description: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: .tempfile file permission issues (699657) (CVE-2018-15908)

  • ghostscript: shading_param incomplete type checking (699660) (CVE-2018-15909)

  • ghostscript: missing type check in type checker (699659) (CVE-2018-16511)

  • ghostscript: incorrect access checking in temp file handling to disclose contents of files (699658) (CVE-2018-16539)

    For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

    Red Hat would like to thank Tavis Ormandy (Google Project Zero) for reporting CVE-2018-15908.
  • Family:unixClass:patch
    Status:Reference(s):CVE-2018-15908
    CVE-2018-15909
    CVE-2018-16511
    CVE-2018-16539
    RHSA-2018:3650
    RHSA-2018:3650-01
    Platform(s):Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
    Product(s):
    Definition Synopsis
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux must be installed
  • OR Package Information
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 is installed
  • AND
  • ghostscript is earlier than 0:9.07-31.el7_6.1
  • AND ghostscript is signed with Red Hat redhatrelease2 key
  • ghostscript-cups is earlier than 0:9.07-31.el7_6.1
  • AND ghostscript-cups is signed with Red Hat redhatrelease2 key
  • ghostscript-devel is earlier than 0:9.07-31.el7_6.1
  • AND ghostscript-devel is signed with Red Hat redhatrelease2 key
  • ghostscript-doc is earlier than 0:9.07-31.el7_6.1
  • AND ghostscript-doc is signed with Red Hat redhatrelease2 key
  • ghostscript-gtk is earlier than 0:9.07-31.el7_6.1
  • AND ghostscript-gtk is signed with Red Hat redhatrelease2 key
  • BACK