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ghostscript (10.0.0~dfsg1-0ubuntu1.1) lunar-security; urgency=medium

  * SECURITY UPDATE: Buffer Overflow
    - debian/patches/CVE-2023-28879.patch: add check to make sure that the
      buffer has space for two characters in s_xBCPE_process() in base/sbcp.c.
    - debian/patches/CVE-2023-28879-post.patch: add PostScript filters
      removals in Resource/Init/gs_init.ps.
    - CVE-2023-28879

 -- Rodrigo Figueiredo Zaiden <email address hidden>  Tue, 25 Apr 2023 16:29:39 -0300

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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.
 .
 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-dbgsym: debug symbols for ghostscript
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: transitional package for ghostscript

 This is a transitional package and can safely be removed.

libgs-common: interpreter for the PostScript language and for PDF - ICC profiles

 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 ICC profiles.

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.

libgs10: 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.

libgs10-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.

libgs10-dbgsym: debug symbols for libgs10
libgs9-common: transitional package for libgs-common

 This is a transitional package and can safely be removed.