Critical Security Advisory for Ghostscript Updates in Fedora 39
Summary
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.
Update Information:
Security fixes for CVE-2024-33870, CVE-2024-29510 Fix for issues in gating Security fix for CVE-2024-33871
Change Log
* Thu Jun 27 2024 Zdenek Dohnal
References
[ 1 ] Bug #2283508 - CVE-2024-33871 ghostscript: OPVP device arbitrary code execution via custom Driver library
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2283508
[ 2 ] Bug #2293950 - CVE-2024-29510 ghostscript: format string injection leads to shell command execution (SAFER bypass)
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2293950
[ 3 ] Bug #2293959 - CVE-2024-33870 ghostscript: path traversal to arbitrary files if the current directory is in the permitted paths
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2293959
Update Instructions
This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2024-c45c747f02' 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