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ghostscript 9.27~dfsg+0-0ubuntu3 source package in Ubuntu

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ghostscript (9.27~dfsg+0-0ubuntu3) eoan; urgency=medium

  * SECURITY UPDATE: '-dSAFER' restrictions bypass by .forceput
    Exposures
    - debian/patches/CVE-2019-14811-CVE-2019-14812-CVE-2019-14813.patch:
      Be more defensive by preventing access to .forceput from
      .setuserparams2.
    - CVE-2019-14811
    - CVE-2019-14812
    - CVE-2019-14813
    - debian/patches/CVE-2019-14817.patch: mark more uses of .forceput
      as execteonly
    - CVE-2019-14817

 -- Steve Beattie <email address hidden>  Wed, 11 Sep 2019 12:06:48 -0700

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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.

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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.