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A ghostscript security update has been released for Fedora 38.



[SECURITY] Fedora 38 Update: ghostscript-10.01.2-1.fc38

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2023-d8a1c3e5e2
2023-07-16 01:24:44.352194
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Name : ghostscript
Product : Fedora 38
Version : 10.01.2
Release : 1.fc38
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:

rebase to bugfix release 10.01.2 (rhbz#2182090)
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ChangeLog:

* Fri Jul 14 2023 Michael J Gruber [mjg@fedoraproject.org] - 10.01.2-1
- rebase to bugfix release 10.01.2 (rhbz#2182090)
- fix for CVE-2023-36664 (rhbz#2217806)
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References:

[ 1 ] Bug #2182090 - ghostscript-10.01.2 is available
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2182090
[ 2 ] Bug #2217806 - CVE-2023-36664 ghostscript: vulnerable to OS command injection due to mishandles permission validation for pipe devices [fedora-38]
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2217806
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This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use
su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2023-d8a1c3e5e2' 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

All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key. More details on the
GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at
https://fedoraproject.org/keys
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