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Ghostscript 9.24 Release Notice

By Lisa Fenn - Tuesday, September 04, 2018

Ghostscript 9.24 Release Notice

Novato, CA September 4, 2018 – Artifex Software is pleased to report that all of the Ghostscript security vulnerabilities disclosed on August 21, 2018, by a Google Project Zero security researcher have been resolved.

As of Friday, August 24, patches for all of the disclosed vulnerabilities were released and made publicly available on the Ghostscript repository.

Artifex is committed to product and customer security and takes vulnerability issues very seriously. Our engineers worked tirelessly to release Ghostscript 9.24 ahead of schedule, which includes fixes for all of the disclosed issues and mitigates other exploits.

PLEASE NOTE: We strongly urge users to upgrade to version 9.24 immediately to avoid these security vulnerabilities.

Customers interested in evaluating this latest Ghostscript release can do so by visiting our Ghostscript download web page.

We apologize if these issues have caused you or your customers any inconvenience whatsoever.