RHSA-2019:0229 — Security Advisory
Red Hat Security Advisory: ghostscript security and bug fix update
Severity
ImportantRed Hat Product Security
Products
Official CSAF product identity
Published · February 1, 2019
Updated · June 25, 2026
Topic
An update for ghostscript is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.
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):
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ghostscript: use-after-free in copydevice handling (699661) (CVE-2018-16540)
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ghostscript: access bypass in psi/zdevice2.c (700153) (CVE-2018-19475)
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ghostscript: access bypass in psi/zicc.c (700169) (CVE-2018-19476)
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ghostscript: access bypass in psi/zfjbig2.c (700168) (CVE-2018-19477)
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ghostscript: subroutines within pseudo-operators must themselves be pseudo-operators (700317) (CVE-2019-6116)
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-2019-6116.
Bug Fix(es):
- Previously, ghostscript-9.07-31.el7_6.1 introduced a regression during the standard input reading, causing a "/invalidfileaccess in --run--" error. With this update, the regression has been fixed and the described error no longer occurs. (BZ#1665919)