Oval Definition:oval:com.redhat.rhsa:def:20183761
Revision Date:2018-12-03Version:638
Title:RHSA-2018:3761: ghostscript security and bug fix 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: incomplete fix for CVE-2018-16509 (CVE-2018-16863)

    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.

    Bug Fix(es):

  • Previously, the flushpage operator has been removed as part of a major clean-up of a non-standard operator. However, flushpage has been found to be used in a few specific use cases. With this update, it has been re-added to support those use cases. (BZ#1654290)
  • Family:unixClass:patch
    Status:Reference(s):CVE-2018-16863
    RHSA-2018:3761
    RHSA-2018:3761-01
    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_6.3
  • AND ghostscript is signed with Red Hat redhatrelease2 key
  • ghostscript-cups is earlier than 0:9.07-31.el7_6.3
  • AND ghostscript-cups is signed with Red Hat redhatrelease2 key
  • ghostscript-devel is earlier than 0:9.07-31.el7_6.3
  • AND ghostscript-devel is signed with Red Hat redhatrelease2 key
  • ghostscript-doc is earlier than 0:9.07-31.el7_6.3
  • AND ghostscript-doc is signed with Red Hat redhatrelease2 key
  • ghostscript-gtk is earlier than 0:9.07-31.el7_6.3
  • AND ghostscript-gtk is signed with Red Hat redhatrelease2 key
  • BACK