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ghostscript (9.50~dfsg-5ubuntu4.13) focal-security; urgency=medium

  * SECURITY UPDATE: heap-based pointer disclosure via constructed BaseFont
    name
    - debian/patches/CVE-2024-29508.patch: review printing of pointers in
      base/gsfont.c, base/gsicc_cache.c, base/gsmalloc.c, base/gxclmem.c,
      base/gxcpath.c, base/gxpath.c, base/szlibc.c, devices/gdevupd.c,
      devices/vector/gdevpdtb.c, psi/ialloc.c, psi/igc.c, psi/igcstr.c,
      psi/iinit.c, psi/imainarg.c, psi/isave.c, psi/iutil.c.
    - debian/patches/CVE-2024-29508-2.patch: remove extra arguments in
      devices/gdevupd.c.
    - CVE-2024-29508

 -- Marc Deslauriers <email address hidden>  Wed, 10 Jul 2024 09:40:58 -0400

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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.
 .
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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,
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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
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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
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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
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 is missing. If the fonts-droid package is not installed, these glyphs
 will be rendered as bullets.