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Medium ALAS2-2023-2261 1 CVE

Moderate: ghostscript security update (Amazon Linux 2)

Published Sep 13, 2023 · Updated Sep 20, 2023

Summary

Package updates are available for Amazon Linux 2 that fix the following vulnerabilities: CVE-2020-16305: A buffer overflow vulnerability in pcx_write_rle() in contrib/japanese/gdev10v.c of Artifex Software GhostScript v9.50 allows a remote attacker to cause a denial of service via a crafted PDF file. This is fixed in v9.51.

Fixed packages 7

ReleasePackageFixed in
Amazon Linux · 2 ghostscript 0:9.25-5.amzn2.0.6
Amazon Linux · 2 ghostscript-cups 0:9.25-5.amzn2.0.6
Amazon Linux · 2 ghostscript-debuginfo 0:9.25-5.amzn2.0.6
Amazon Linux · 2 ghostscript-doc 0:9.25-5.amzn2.0.6
Amazon Linux · 2 ghostscript-gtk 0:9.25-5.amzn2.0.6
Amazon Linux · 2 libgs 0:9.25-5.amzn2.0.6
Amazon Linux · 2 libgs-devel 0:9.25-5.amzn2.0.6

Vulnerabilities 1

References

  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2020-16305.html