ghostscript 9.50~dfsg-5ubuntu4.7 source package in Ubuntu
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ghostscript (9.50~dfsg-5ubuntu4.7) focal-security; urgency=medium
* SECURITY UPDATE: Buffer Overflow
- debian/patches/CVE-2023-28879.patch: add check to make sure that the
buffer has space for two characters in s_xBCPE_process() in base/sbcp.c.
- CVE-2023-28879
-- Rodrigo Figueiredo Zaiden <email address hidden> Thu, 13 Apr 2023 10:48:39 -0300
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| ghostscript_9.50~dfsg.orig.tar.xz | 18.3 MiB | 6500e127469df5b3dfd18e4b0bd660a716486b68ff2c0927fe9772f36cb18c73 |
| ghostscript_9.50~dfsg-5ubuntu4.7.debian.tar.xz | 130.5 KiB | b2a2ec649e51017a7fb2b6cc37468937961f26d12213d95ee28cc82e4d4ce085 |
| ghostscript_9.50~dfsg-5ubuntu4.7.dsc | 2.5 KiB | 313c11792fa19e271a4f4434b0e0f9d2ef0a6467d6c95d591115ca22b0f1d82b |
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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.
