Oval Definition:oval:com.redhat.rhsa:def:20190229
Revision Date:2019-01-31Version:639
Title:RHSA-2019:0229: 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: use-after-free in copydevice handling (699661) (CVE-2018-16540)

  • ghostscript: access bypass in psi/zdevice2.c (700153) (CVE-2018-19475)

  • ghostscript: access bypass in psi/zicc.c (700169) (CVE-2018-19476)

  • ghostscript: access bypass in psi/zfjbig2.c (700168) (CVE-2018-19477)

  • ghostscript: subroutines within pseudo-operators must themselves be pseudo-operators (700317) (CVE-2019-6116)

    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-2019-6116.

    Bug Fix(es):

  • Previously, ghostscript-9.07-31.el7_6.1 introduced a regression during the standard input reading, causing a "/invalidfileaccess in --run--" error. With this update, the regression has been fixed and the described error no longer occurs. (BZ#1665919)
  • Family:unixClass:patch
    Status:Reference(s):CVE-2018-16540
    CVE-2018-19475
    CVE-2018-19476
    CVE-2018-19477
    CVE-2019-6116
    RHSA-2019:0229
    RHSA-2019:0229-01
    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_6.9
  • AND ghostscript is signed with Red Hat redhatrelease2 key
  • ghostscript-cups is earlier than 0:9.07-31.el7_6.9
  • AND ghostscript-cups is signed with Red Hat redhatrelease2 key
  • ghostscript-devel is earlier than 0:9.07-31.el7_6.9
  • AND ghostscript-devel is signed with Red Hat redhatrelease2 key
  • ghostscript-doc is earlier than 0:9.07-31.el7_6.9
  • AND ghostscript-doc is signed with Red Hat redhatrelease2 key
  • ghostscript-gtk is earlier than 0:9.07-31.el7_6.9
  • AND ghostscript-gtk is signed with Red Hat redhatrelease2 key
  • BACK