Release ghostscript-9.27-18.el8_10 ALSA-2026:76877
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Assessment
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100
- Issue type
- Bug
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Activity status
- Active
- Domain
- security
Research direction
The issue names Ghostscript 9.27 packages and CVE-2026-39919, but gives no source files, tests, or update procedure. Start by reading the CVE reference and the repository’s existing security-update issues to identify how package updates are handled. Done means the affected Ghostscript packages are updated to address the reported heap buffer overflow and the update is verified.
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Description
ghostscript security update
Severity: Moderate
Description
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: ghostscript: Heap buffer overflow via JPEG 2000 output adapter (CVE-2026-39919)
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.
Affected packages:
ghostscript-9.27-18.el8_10.x86_64
ghostscript-x11-9.27-18.el8_10.x86_64
libgs-9.27-18.el8_10.i686
libgs-9.27-18.el8_10.x86_64
ghostscript-9.27-18.el8_10.s390x
ghostscript-x11-9.27-18.el8_10.s390x
libgs-9.27-18.el8_10.s390x
ghostscript-9.27-18.el8_10.ppc64le
ghostscript-x11-9.27-18.el8_10.ppc64le
libgs-9.27-18.el8_10.ppc64le
ghostscript-9.27-18.el8_10.aarch64
ghostscript-x11-9.27-18.el8_10.aarch64
libgs-9.27-18.el8_10.aarch64
ghostscript-doc-9.27-18.el8_10.noarch
ghostscript-tools-dvipdf-9.27-18.el8_10.x86_64
ghostscript-tools-fonts-9.27-18.el8_10.x86_64
ghostscript-tools-printing-9.27-18.el8_10.x86_64
libgs-devel-9.27-18.el8_10.i686
libgs-devel-9.27-18.el8_10.x86_64
ghostscript-doc-9.27-18.el8_10.noarch
ghostscript-tools-dvipdf-9.27-18.el8_10.ppc64le
ghostscript-tools-fonts-9.27-18.el8_10.ppc64le
ghostscript-tools-printing-9.27-18.el8_10.ppc64le
libgs-devel-9.27-18.el8_10.ppc64le
ghostscript-doc-9.27-18.el8_10.noarch
ghostscript-tools-dvipdf-9.27-18.el8_10.aarch64
ghostscript-tools-fonts-9.27-18.el8_10.aarch64
ghostscript-tools-printing-9.27-18.el8_10.aarch64
libgs-devel-9.27-18.el8_10.aarch64
ghostscript-doc-9.27-18.el8_10.noarch
ghostscript-tools-dvipdf-9.27-18.el8_10.s390x
ghostscript-tools-fonts-9.27-18.el8_10.s390x
ghostscript-tools-printing-9.27-18.el8_10.s390x
libgs-devel-9.27-18.el8_10.s390x
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