Important: ghostscript security update

Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2023-36664  

Synopsis

Important: ghostscript security update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory: Important

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Topic

An update for ghostscript is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.0 Extended Update Support.

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.

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: vulnerable to OS command injection due to mishandles permission validation for pipe devices (CVE-2023-36664)

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.

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

Affected Products

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 9.0 x86_64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - Extended Update Support 9.0 s390x
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian - Extended Update Support 9.0 ppc64le
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 - Extended Update Support 9.0 aarch64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server for Power LE - Update Services for SAP Solutions 9.0 ppc64le
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Update Services for SAP Solutions 9.0 x86_64
  • Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 9.0 x86_64
  • Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder for Power, little endian - Extended Update Support 9.0 ppc64le
  • Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder for IBM z Systems - Extended Update Support 9.0 s390x
  • Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder for ARM 64 - Extended Update Support 9.0 aarch64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server for ARM 64 - 4 years of updates 9.0 aarch64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server for IBM z Systems - 4 years of updates 9.0 s390x

Fixes

  • BZ - 2217798 - CVE-2023-36664 ghostscript: vulnerable to OS command injection due to mishandles permission validation for pipe devices