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Alma Linux: CVE-2023-4042: Moderate: ghostscript security and bug fix update (ALSA-2023-7053)

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Alma Linux: CVE-2023-4042: Moderate: ghostscript security and bug fix update (ALSA-2023-7053)

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
08/23/2023
Created
11/29/2023
Added
11/28/2023
Modified
11/28/2023

Description

A flaw was found in ghostscript. The fix for CVE-2020-16305 in ghostscript was not included in RHSA-2021:1852-06 advisory as it was claimed to be. This issue only affects the ghostscript package as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.

Solution(s)

  • alma-upgrade-ghostscript
  • alma-upgrade-ghostscript-doc
  • alma-upgrade-ghostscript-tools-dvipdf
  • alma-upgrade-ghostscript-tools-fonts
  • alma-upgrade-ghostscript-tools-printing
  • alma-upgrade-ghostscript-x11
  • alma-upgrade-libgs
  • alma-upgrade-libgs-devel

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