Security Vulnerabilities fixed in ghostscript RHSA-2018:3650

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: .tempfile file permission issues (699657) (CVE-2018-15908) * ghostscript: shading_param incomplete type checking (699660) (CVE-2018-15909) * ghostscript: missing type check in type checker (699659) (CVE-2018-16511) * ghostscript: incorrect access checking in temp file handling to disclose contents of files (699658) (CVE-2018-16539) For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section. Red Hat would like to thank Tavis Ormandy (Google Project Zero) for reporting CVE-2018-15908.

Affected Applications

ghostscript

CVE References

CVE-2018-15908 CVE-2018-15909 CVE-2018-16511 CVE-2018-16539

Other References

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3650