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Low ALSA-2024:2966 1 CVE

Low: ghostscript security update

Published May 22, 2024 · Updated Oct 29, 2026

Summary

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.

Security Fix(es):

* ghostscript: Divide by zero in eps_print_page in gdevepsn.c (CVE-2020-21710)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Additional Changes:

For detailed information on changes in this release, see the AlmaLinux Release Notes linked from the References section.

Fixed packages 8

ReleasePackageFixed in
AlmaLinux · 8 ghostscript 9.27-12.el8
AlmaLinux · 8 ghostscript-doc 9.27-12.el8
AlmaLinux · 8 ghostscript-tools-dvipdf 9.27-12.el8
AlmaLinux · 8 ghostscript-tools-fonts 9.27-12.el8
AlmaLinux · 8 ghostscript-tools-printing 9.27-12.el8
AlmaLinux · 8 ghostscript-x11 9.27-12.el8
AlmaLinux · 8 libgs 9.27-12.el8
AlmaLinux · 8 libgs-devel 9.27-12.el8

Vulnerabilities 1

References

  • report
    https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-21710
  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2235001
  • advisory
    https://errata.almalinux.org/8/ALSA-2024-2966.html