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ghostscript (9.50~dfsg-5ubuntu4.15) focal-security; urgency=medium

  * SECURITY UPDATE: Buffer overflow via serialization of DollarBlend
    - debian/patches/CVE-2025-27830.patch: fix potential Buffer overflow
      in base/write_t1.c, psi/zfapi.c.
    - CVE-2025-27830
  * SECURITY UPDATE: Compression buffer overflow
    - debian/patches/CVE-2025-27832.patch: avoid integer overflow leading
      to buffer overflow in contrib/japanese/gdevnpdl.c.
    - CVE-2025-27832
  * SECURITY UPDATE: Buffer overflow when converting glyphs to unicode
    - debian/patches/CVE-2025-27835.patch: fix confusion between bytes and
      shorts in psi/zbfont.c.
    - CVE-2025-27835
  * SECURITY UPDATE: Print buffer overflow
    - debian/patches/CVE-2025-27836-pre1.patch: increase buffer by one byte
      to give space for sentinel in contrib/japanese/gdev10v.c.
    - debian/patches/CVE-2025-27836-1.patch: fix potential print buffer
      overflow in contrib/japanese/gdev10v.c.
    - debian/patches/CVE-2025-27836-2.patch: fix compiler warnings in
      contrib/japanese/gdev10v.c.
    - CVE-2025-27836

 -- Marc Deslauriers <email address hidden>  Tue, 25 Mar 2025 15:38:31 -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
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 .
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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,
 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
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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
 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.