Bleeping Computer

Critical RCE found in popular Ghostscript open-source PDF library

Ghostscript, an open-source interpreter for PostScript language and PDF files widely used in Linux, has been found vulnerable to a critical-severity remote code execution flaw. The flaw is tracked as ...
JD Supra

Important Open Source Ruling Confirms Enforceability of Dual-Licensing and Breach of GPL for Failing to Distribute Source Code

A recent federal district court decision denied a motion to dismiss a complaint brought by Artifex Software Inc. (“Artifex”) for breach of contract and copyright infringement claims against Defendant ...
Ars Technica

Unforked Ghostscript released, now under the GPL, and works with CUPS

This week Ghostscript, an open source postscript processor, released version 8.60. Ghostscript releases are not normally newsworthy since they are frequent and incremental, but this release is special ...
Bleeping Computer

RCE bug in widely used Ghostscript library now exploited in attacks

A remote code execution vulnerability in the Ghostscript document conversion toolkit, widely used on Linux systems, is currently being exploited in attacks. Ghostscript comes pre-installed on many ...
Ars Technica

Diebold faces GPL infringement lawsuit over voting machines

Artifex Software, the company behind the open source Ghostscript PDF processing software, has filed a lawsuit against voting machine vendor Diebold and its subsidiary Premier Election Solutions.