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A ghostscript security update has been released for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.0 Update Services for SAP Solution.



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Red Hat Security Advisory

Synopsis: Important: ghostscript security update
Advisory ID: RHSA-2020:0222-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL:   https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0222
Issue date: 2020-01-23
CVE Names: CVE-2019-14869
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1. Summary:

An update for ghostscript is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.0
Update Services for SAP Solutions.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact
of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score,
which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability
from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

2. Relevant releases/architectures:

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream E4S (v. 8.0) - ppc64le, x86_64

3. Description:

The Ghostscript suite contains utilities for rendering PostScript and PDF
documents. Ghostscript translates PostScript code to common bitmap formats
so that the code can be displayed or printed.

Security Fix(es):

* ghostscript: -dSAFER escape in .charkeys (701841) (CVE-2019-14869)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS
score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE
page(s) listed in the References section.

4. Solution:

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes
described in this advisory, refer to:

  https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

5. Bugs fixed (  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/):

1768911 - CVE-2019-14869 ghostscript: -dSAFER escape in .charkeys (701841)

6. Package List:

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream E4S (v. 8.0):

Source:
ghostscript-9.25-2.el8_0.4.src.rpm

ppc64le:
ghostscript-9.25-2.el8_0.4.ppc64le.rpm
ghostscript-debuginfo-9.25-2.el8_0.4.ppc64le.rpm
ghostscript-debugsource-9.25-2.el8_0.4.ppc64le.rpm
ghostscript-gtk-debuginfo-9.25-2.el8_0.4.ppc64le.rpm
ghostscript-x11-debuginfo-9.25-2.el8_0.4.ppc64le.rpm
libgs-9.25-2.el8_0.4.ppc64le.rpm
libgs-debuginfo-9.25-2.el8_0.4.ppc64le.rpm

x86_64:
ghostscript-9.25-2.el8_0.4.x86_64.rpm
ghostscript-debuginfo-9.25-2.el8_0.4.i686.rpm
ghostscript-debuginfo-9.25-2.el8_0.4.x86_64.rpm
ghostscript-debugsource-9.25-2.el8_0.4.i686.rpm
ghostscript-debugsource-9.25-2.el8_0.4.x86_64.rpm
ghostscript-gtk-debuginfo-9.25-2.el8_0.4.i686.rpm
ghostscript-gtk-debuginfo-9.25-2.el8_0.4.x86_64.rpm
ghostscript-x11-debuginfo-9.25-2.el8_0.4.i686.rpm
ghostscript-x11-debuginfo-9.25-2.el8_0.4.x86_64.rpm
libgs-9.25-2.el8_0.4.i686.rpm
libgs-9.25-2.el8_0.4.x86_64.rpm
libgs-debuginfo-9.25-2.el8_0.4.i686.rpm
libgs-debuginfo-9.25-2.el8_0.4.x86_64.rpm

These packages are GPG signed by Red Hat for security. Our key and
details on how to verify the signature are available from
  https://access.redhat.com/security/team/key/

7. References:

  https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-14869
  https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important

8. Contact:

The Red Hat security contact is . More contact
details at   https://access.redhat.com/security/team/contact/

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