Issued:

2012-06-20

Updated:

2012-06-20

RHBA-2012:0938 - ghostscript bug fix update

Synopsis

ghostscript bug fix update

Type/Severity

Bug Fix Advisory (none)

Topic

Updated ghostscript packages that fix three bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.

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.

This update fixes the following bugs:

• Prior to this update, the gdevcups driver, which produces CUPS Raster output, handled memory allocations incorrectly. This could cause the ghostscript program to terminate unexpectedly in some situations. This update applies backported fixes for handling the memory allocations to this version of ghostscript and the crash no longer occurs. (BZ#643105)

• Prior to this update, certain input files containing CID Type2 fonts were rendered with incorrect character spacing. This update modifies the code so that all input files with CID Type2 fonts are rendered correctly. (BZ#695766)

• Prior to this update, the page orientation was incorrect when pages in the landscape orientation were converted to the PXL raster format. This update matches landscape-page sizes as well as portrait-page sizes, and sets the orientation parameter correctly when a match is found. (BZ#697488)

All users of ghostscript are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which fix these bugs.

Solution

Before applying this update, make sure all previously-released errata relevant to your system have been applied.

This update is available via the Red Hat Network. Details on how to use the Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at https://access.redhat.com/knowledge/articles/11258

Affected Products

Updated Packages

• ghostscript-doc-8.70-14.el6.ppc64.rpm
• ghostscript-devel-8.70-14.el6.i686.rpm
• ghostscript-devel-8.70-14.el6.x86_64.rpm
• ghostscript-devel-8.70-14.el6.ppc.rpm
• ghostscript-debuginfo-8.70-14.el6.x86_64.rpm
• ghostscript-devel-8.70-14.el6.ppc64.rpm
• ghostscript-8.70-14.el6.ppc64.rpm
• ghostscript-debuginfo-8.70-14.el6.s390.rpm
• ghostscript-devel-8.70-14.el6.s390x.rpm
• ghostscript-debuginfo-8.70-14.el6.ppc64.rpm
• ghostscript-doc-8.70-14.el6.s390x.rpm
• ghostscript-8.70-14.el6.x86_64.rpm
• ghostscript-8.70-14.el6.src.rpm
• ghostscript-8.70-14.el6.i686.rpm
• ghostscript-8.70-14.el6.s390.rpm
• ghostscript-gtk-8.70-14.el6.x86_64.rpm
• ghostscript-debuginfo-8.70-14.el6.ppc.rpm
• ghostscript-debuginfo-8.70-14.el6.i686.rpm
• ghostscript-8.70-14.el6.ppc.rpm
• ghostscript-devel-8.70-14.el6.s390.rpm
• ghostscript-doc-8.70-14.el6.i686.rpm
• ghostscript-gtk-8.70-14.el6.i686.rpm
• ghostscript-doc-8.70-14.el6.x86_64.rpm
• ghostscript-8.70-14.el6.s390x.rpm
• ghostscript-debuginfo-8.70-14.el6.s390x.rpm
• ghostscript-gtk-8.70-14.el6.s390x.rpm
• ghostscript-gtk-8.70-14.el6.ppc64.rpm

Fixes

(none)

CVEs

(none)

References

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