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A ghostscript security update is available for Fedora 29



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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2019-7debdd1807
2019-11-24 01:54:51.869880
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Name : ghostscript
Product : Fedora 29
Version : 9.27
Release : 2.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:

Security fix for CVE-2019-14869
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ChangeLog:

* Thu Nov 14 2019 Zdenek Dohnal - 9.27-2
- 1772486 - ghostscript: -dSAFER escape in .charkeys (701841)
* Fri Sep 6 2019 Martin Osvald - 9.27-1
- rebase to latest upstream version 9.27
- security fixes added for:
- CVE-2019-14811 (bug #1747908)
- CVE-2019-14812 (bug #1747907)
- CVE-2019-14813 (bug #1747906)
- CVE-2019-14817 (bug #1747909)
* Mon Aug 12 2019 Martin Osvald - 9.26-6
- Fix for CVE-2019-10216 added
* Thu Jul 25 2019 Fedora Release Engineering - 9.26-5
- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_31_Mass_Rebuild
- Fix for CVE-2019-10216 added
* Fri Mar 22 2019 Martin Osvald - 9.26-4
- Fixes for CVE-2019-3835 and CVE-2019-3838 added
* Mon Mar 11 2019 Martin Osvald - 9.26-3
- Fix for bug #1687144 added
* Fri Mar 8 2019 Martin Osvald - 9.26-2
- Fix for CVE-2019-6116 added (bug #1668888)
* Thu Feb 7 2019 Martin Osvald - 9.26-1
- rebase to latest upstream version 9.26
- spec change to remove gsdoc.el due to upstream 8bc783cb586
* Thu Jan 31 2019 Fedora Release Engineering - 9.25-2
- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_30_Mass_Rebuild
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References:

[ 1 ] Bug #1768911 - CVE-2019-14869 ghostscript: -dSAFER escape in .charkeys (701841)
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1768911
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This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use
su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2019-7debdd1807' 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

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