Synopsis: Important: ghostscript security and bug fix update
Advisory ID:       SLSA-2018:3761-1
Issue Date:        2018-12-04
CVE Numbers:       CVE-2018-16863
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Security Fix(es):

* ghostscript: incomplete fix for CVE-2018-16509 (CVE-2018-16863)

Bug Fix(es):

* Previously, the flushpage operator has been removed as part of a major
clean-up of a non-standard operator. However, flushpage has been found to
be used in a few specific use cases. With this update, it has been re-
added to support those use cases.
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SL7
  x86_64
    ghostscript-9.07-31.el7_6.3.i686.rpm
    ghostscript-9.07-31.el7_6.3.x86_64.rpm
    ghostscript-cups-9.07-31.el7_6.3.x86_64.rpm
    ghostscript-debuginfo-9.07-31.el7_6.3.i686.rpm
    ghostscript-debuginfo-9.07-31.el7_6.3.x86_64.rpm
    ghostscript-devel-9.07-31.el7_6.3.i686.rpm
    ghostscript-devel-9.07-31.el7_6.3.x86_64.rpm
    ghostscript-gtk-9.07-31.el7_6.3.x86_64.rpm
    ghostscript-9.07-31.el7_6.3.src.rpm
  noarch
    ghostscript-doc-9.07-31.el7_6.3.noarch.rpm

- Scientific Linux Development Team

SciLinux: SLSA-2018-3761-1 Important: ghostscript on SL7.x x86_64

ghostscript: incomplete fix for CVE-2018-16509 (CVE-2018-16863) Bug Fix(es): * Previously, the flushpage operator has been removed as part of a major clean-up of a non-standard ope...

Summary

Important: ghostscript security and bug fix update



Security Fixes

* ghostscript: incomplete fix for CVE-2018-16509 (CVE-2018-16863)

Severity
Advisory ID: SLSA-2018:3761-1
Issued Date: : 2018-12-04
CVE Numbers: CVE-2018-16863

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