ghostscript 9.50~dfsg-5ubuntu4.9 source package in Ubuntu
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ghostscript (9.50~dfsg-5ubuntu4.9) focal-security; urgency=medium
* SECURITY UPDATE: buffer overflow
- debian/patches/CVE-2023-38559.patch: bounds check the buffer prior to
deferencing the pointer in devn_pcx_write_rle() in base/gdevdevn.c.
- CVE-2023-38559
-- Allen Huang <email address hidden> Tue, 15 Aug 2023 11:17:37 +0100
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| ghostscript_9.50~dfsg.orig.tar.xz | 18.3 MiB | 6500e127469df5b3dfd18e4b0bd660a716486b68ff2c0927fe9772f36cb18c73 |
| ghostscript_9.50~dfsg-5ubuntu4.9.debian.tar.xz | 133.2 KiB | 3a186d999b7af79e8a49c1560a23bb18c04f2fda1f621c27d0e7f06feb88f029 |
| ghostscript_9.50~dfsg-5ubuntu4.9.dsc | 2.9 KiB | fcbd07b2deb717ab9a9fb94f2ab607719ee99ae96b6563ce8f0500e243f40550 |
Available diffs
Binary packages built by this source
- ghostscript: interpreter for the PostScript language and for PDF
GPL Ghostscript is used for PostScript/PDF preview and printing.
Usually as a back-end to a program such as ghostview, it can display
PostScript and PDF documents in an X11 environment.
.
Furthermore, it can render PostScript and PDF files as graphics to be
printed on non-PostScript printers. Supported printers include common
dot-matrix, inkjet and laser models.
- ghostscript-dbg: interpreter for the PostScript language and for PDF - Debug symbols
GPL Ghostscript is used for PostScript/PDF preview and printing.
Usually as a back-end to a program such as ghostview, it can display
PostScript and PDF documents in an X11 environment.
.
This package contains the debugging symbols for ghostscript,
ghostscript-x, and libgs9.
- ghostscript-doc: interpreter for the PostScript language and for PDF - Documentation
GPL Ghostscript is used for PostScript/PDF preview and printing.
Usually as a back-end to a program such as ghostview, it can display
PostScript and PDF documents in an X11 environment.
.
This package contains documentation for GPL Ghostscript, mainly
targeted developers and advanced users.
- ghostscript-x: interpreter for the PostScript language and for PDF - X11 support
GPL Ghostscript is used for PostScript/PDF preview and printing.
Usually as a back-end to a program such as ghostview, it can display
PostScript and PDF documents in an X11 environment.
.
This package contains the GPL Ghostscript output device for X11.
- libgs-dev: interpreter for the PostScript language and for PDF - Development Files
GPL Ghostscript is used for PostScript/PDF preview and printing.
Usually as a back-end to a program such as ghostview, it can display
PostScript and PDF documents in an X11 environment.
.
This package provides the development files for the GPL Ghostscript
library which makes the facilities of GPL Ghostscript available to
applications.
- libgs9: interpreter for the PostScript language and for PDF - Library
GPL Ghostscript is used for PostScript/PDF preview and printing.
Usually as a back-end to a program such as ghostview, it can display
PostScript and PDF documents in an X11 environment.
.
This package provides the Ghostscript library which makes the
facilities of GPL Ghostscript available to applications.
- libgs9-common: interpreter for the PostScript language and for PDF - common files
GPL Ghostscript is used for PostScript/PDF preview and printing.
Usually as a back-end to a program such as ghostview, it can display
PostScript and PDF documents in an X11 environment.
.
This package provides common architecture-independent files needed by
the GPL Ghostscript library.
.
By default, GPL Ghostscript uses a font from the fonts-droid package to
approximate glyphs in PDFs for which the requested CJK TrueType font
is missing. If the fonts-droid package is not installed, these glyphs
will be rendered as bullets.
