RHSA-2019:3888 — Security Advisory
Red Hat Security Advisory: ghostscript security update
Severity
ImportantRed Hat Product Security
Products
Official CSAF product identity
Published · November 15, 2019
Updated · August 4, 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):
- ghostscript: -dSAFER escape in .charkeys (701841) (CVE-2019-14869)
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.