Critical Security Advisory for Ghostscript in Fedora 40 - CVE-2024-33870, CVE-2024-29510
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
Change Log
* Thu Jun 27 2024 Zdenek Dohnal
References
[ 1 ] 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
[ 2 ] 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-f433c5c4da' 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