Critical Ghostscript Update for Fedora 40: Security Advisory Highlights
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 fix for CVE-2024-33869 Security fixes for CVE-2024-29509, CVE-2024-29508, CVE-2024-29507, CVE-2024-29506
Change Log
* Wed Jul 17 2024 Zdenek Dohnal
References
[ 1 ] Bug #2293958 - CVE-2024-33869 ghostscript: path traversal and command execution due to path reduction
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2293958
[ 2 ] Bug #2295626 - CVE-2024-29506 ghostscript: stack-based buffer overflow in the pdfi_apply_filter()
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2295626
[ 3 ] Bug #2295627 - CVE-2024-29508 ghostscript: heap pointer leak in pdf_base_font_alloc()
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2295627
[ 4 ] Bug #2295628 - CVE-2024-29509 ghostscript: heap buffer overflow via the PDFPassword parameter
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2295628
[ 5 ] Bug #2295647 - CVE-2024-29507 ghostscript: stack-based buffer overflow via the CIDFSubstPath and CIDFSubstFont parameters
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2295647
Update Instructions
This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2024-053b8330a1' 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