In Artifex Ghostscript before 9.24, attackers able to supply crafted PostScript files could use incorrect free logic in pagedevice replacement to crash the interpreter. External Reference: https://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/332928 https://www.artifex.com/news/ghostscript-security-resolved/ Upstream Bug: https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=699664 Upstream Patch: http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git;a=commit;h=241d9111
Created ghostscript tracking bugs for this issue: Affects: fedora-all [bug 1625847]
Acknowledgments: Name: Tavis Ormandy (Google Project Zero)
Statement: This issue affects the versions of ghostscript as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, 6, and 7. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 is now in Extended Life Phase of the support and maintenance life cycle. This issue is not currently planned to be addressed in future updates. For additional information, refer to the Red Hat Enterprise Linux Life Cycle: https://access.redhat.com/support/policy/updates/errata/. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 is now in Maintenance Support 2 Phase of the support and maintenance life cycle. This has been rated as having a security impact of Important, and is not currently planned to be addressed in future updates. For additional information, refer to the Red Hat Enterprise Linux Life Cycle: https://access.redhat.com/support/policy/updates/errata/.
This issue has been addressed in the following products: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Via RHSA-2018:3834 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3834