RHSA-2019:2281 — Security Advisory
Red Hat Security Advisory: ghostscript security, bug fix, and enhancement update
Severity
LowRed Hat Product Security
Products
Official CSAF product identity
Published · August 6, 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 Low. 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.
The following packages have been upgraded to a later upstream version: ghostscript (9.25). (BZ#1636115)
Security Fix(es):
- ghostscript: status command permitted with -dSAFER in psi/zfile.c allowing attackers to identify the size and existence of files (CVE-2018-11645)
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.
Additional Changes:
For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.7 Release Notes linked from the References section.