Summary
Package updates are available for Amazon Linux 2023 that fix the following vulnerabilities: CVE-2023-28879: In Artifex Ghostscript through 10.01.0, there is a buffer overflow leading to potential corruption of data internal to the PostScript interpreter, in base/sbcp.c. This affects BCPEncode, BCPDecode, TBCPEncode, and TBCPDecode. If the write buffer is filled to one byte less than full, and one then tries to write an escaped character, two bytes are written.
Fixed packages 14
| Release | Package | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| Amazon Linux · 2023 | ghostscript | 0:9.56.1-7.amzn2023.0.1 |
| Amazon Linux · 2023 | ghostscript-debuginfo | 0:9.56.1-7.amzn2023.0.1 |
| Amazon Linux · 2023 | ghostscript-debugsource | 0:9.56.1-7.amzn2023.0.1 |
| Amazon Linux · 2023 | ghostscript-doc | 0:9.56.1-7.amzn2023.0.1 |
| Amazon Linux · 2023 | ghostscript-gtk | 0:9.56.1-7.amzn2023.0.1 |
| Amazon Linux · 2023 | ghostscript-gtk-debuginfo | 0:9.56.1-7.amzn2023.0.1 |
| Amazon Linux · 2023 | ghostscript-tools-dvipdf | 0:9.56.1-7.amzn2023.0.1 |
| Amazon Linux · 2023 | ghostscript-tools-fonts | 0:9.56.1-7.amzn2023.0.1 |
| Amazon Linux · 2023 | ghostscript-tools-printing | 0:9.56.1-7.amzn2023.0.1 |
| Amazon Linux · 2023 | ghostscript-x11 | 0:9.56.1-7.amzn2023.0.1 |
| Amazon Linux · 2023 | ghostscript-x11-debuginfo | 0:9.56.1-7.amzn2023.0.1 |
| Amazon Linux · 2023 | libgs | 0:9.56.1-7.amzn2023.0.1 |
| Amazon Linux · 2023 | libgs-debuginfo | 0:9.56.1-7.amzn2023.0.1 |
| Amazon Linux · 2023 | libgs-devel | 0:9.56.1-7.amzn2023.0.1 |
Vulnerabilities 1
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Critical 9.8
In Artifex Ghostscript through 10.01.0, there is a buffer overflow leading to potential corruption of data internal to …
References
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web
https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2023-28879.html