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ghostscript-9.20-5.fc23

FEDORA-2016-15d4c05a19 created by dkaspar 7 years ago for Fedora 23

This update fixes a rare ocasion where ghostscript would fail when displaying *.ps files. More info can be found here.


This is a security update for these CVEs:

  • CVE-2016-8602 - check for sufficient params in .sethalftone5
  • CVE-2016-7977 - .libfile does not honor -dSAFER [This CVE is now correctly fixed, previous release was accidentally missing the fix.]

How to install

Updates may require up to 24 hours to propagate to mirrors. If the following command doesn't work, please retry later:

sudo dnf upgrade --refresh --advisory=FEDORA-2016-15d4c05a19

This update has been submitted for testing by dkaspar.

7 years ago

ghostscript-9.20-5.fc23 ejected from the push because u"Cannot find relevant tag for ghostscript-9.20-5.fc23. None of ['f23-updates-testing', 'f23-updates-testing-pending'] are in [u'f22-updates-candidate', u'dist-6E-epel-testing-candidate', u'dist-5E-epel-testing-candidate', u'f21-updates-candidate', u'f24-updates-candidate', u'f25-updates-candidate', u'f23-updates-candidate', u'epel7-testing-candidate']."

7 years ago

This update has been submitted for testing by kevin.

7 years ago
User Icon filiperosset commented & provided feedback 7 years ago
karma

no regressions noted

This update has been pushed to testing.

7 years ago

This update has obsoleted ghostscript-9.20-4.fc23, and has inherited its bugs and notes.

7 years ago

This update has reached 7 days in testing and can be pushed to stable now if the maintainer wishes

7 years ago
User Icon adamwill commented & provided feedback 7 years ago
karma

seems OK

This update has been submitted for stable by dkaspar.

7 years ago

This update has been pushed to stable.

7 years ago

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Metadata
Type
security
Severity
low
Karma
2
Signed
Content Type
RPM
Test Gating
Settings
Unstable by Karma
-3
Stable by Karma
3
Stable by Time
disabled
Dates
submitted
7 years ago
in testing
7 years ago
in stable
7 years ago
BZ#1380416 ghostscript: .libfile does not honor -dSAFER [fedora-all]
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0
BZ#1383941 CVE-2016-8602 ghostscript: check for sufficient params in .sethalftone5 [fedora-all]
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0

Automated Test Results