RHSA-2024:6466 — Security Advisory

An update for ghostscript is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.2 Extended Update Support.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. 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.

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: format string injection leads to shell command execution (SAFER bypass) (CVE-2024-29510)

• ghostscript: path traversal and command execution due to path reduction (CVE-2024-33869)

• ghostscript: path traversal to arbitrary files if the current directory is in the permitted paths (CVE-2024-33870)

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.