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Updated ghostscript packages has been released for Fedora 31 to address the -dSAFER escape in .charkeys security issue



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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2019-6cdb10aa59
2019-11-18 22:47:05.646421
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Name : ghostscript
Product : Fedora 31
Version : 9.27
Release : 2.fc31
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:

Security fix for CVE-2019-14869
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ChangeLog:

* Thu Nov 14 2019 Zdenek Dohnal - 9.27-2
- 1772486 - ghostscript: -dSAFER escape in .charkeys (701841)
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References:

[ 1 ] Bug #1768911 - CVE-2019-14869 ghostscript: -dSAFER escape in .charkeys (701841)
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1768911
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This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use
su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2019-6cdb10aa59' 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

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