ghostscript 9.15+dfsg-0ubuntu2.1 source package in Ubuntu
Changelog
ghostscript (9.15+dfsg-0ubuntu2.1) vivid-security; urgency=medium
* SECURITY UPDATE: integer overflow in gs_heap_alloc_bytes()
- debian/patches/CVE-2015-3228.patch: added sanity check to
base/gsmalloc.c.
- CVE-2015-3228
-- Marc Deslauriers <email address hidden> Wed, 29 Jul 2015 16:00:29 -0400
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- Uploaded by:
- Marc Deslauriers on 2015-07-29
- Uploaded to:
- Vivid
- Original maintainer:
- Ubuntu Developers
- Architectures:
- any all
- Section:
- text
- Urgency:
- Medium Urgency
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| Series | Published | Component | Section | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vivid | updates | on 2015-07-30 | main | text |
| Vivid | security | on 2015-07-30 | main | text |
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| ghostscript_9.15+dfsg.orig.tar.bz2 | 16.3 MiB | c99518f876e999bb197589e55fef24af6a5fd3da59a3d6d3ae0de7d99d7ad643 |
| ghostscript_9.15+dfsg-0ubuntu2.1.debian.tar.xz | 97.7 KiB | fa8c900d7c4d1282d5a1f66f07290c76e5f16ad8948c66084a887ee5bdc100d8 |
| ghostscript_9.15+dfsg-0ubuntu2.1.dsc | 2.8 KiB | 0c4adf561c44541791d135505777678261aba3023535b84d80b53e197decadff |
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,
ghostscript-cups and libgs9.
- ghostscript-dbgsym: debug symbols for package ghostscript
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-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.
- ghostscript-x-dbgsym: debug symbols for package ghostscript-x
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.
- libgs-dev-dbgsym: debug symbols for package libgs-dev
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.
- libgs9-dbgsym: debug symbols for package libgs9
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.
