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Medium ALAS2023-2023-296 2 CVEs

Moderate: ghostscript security update (Amazon Linux 2023)

Published Aug 17, 2023 · Updated Feb 15, 2024

Ecosystem: Amazon Linux

Summary

Package updates are available for Amazon Linux 2023 that fix the following vulnerabilities: CVE-2023-38559: A buffer overflow flaw was found in base/gdevdevn.c:1973 in devn_pcx_write_rle() in ghostscript. This issue may allow a local attacker to cause a denial of service via outputting a crafted PDF file for a DEVN device with gs. CVE-2020-21710: A divide by zero issue discovered in eps_print_page in gdevepsn.c in Artifex Software GhostScript 9.50 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via opening of crafted PDF file.

Fixed packages 14

ReleasePackageFixed in
Amazon Linux · 2023 ghostscript 0:9.56.1-7.amzn2023.0.3
Amazon Linux · 2023 ghostscript-debuginfo 0:9.56.1-7.amzn2023.0.3
Amazon Linux · 2023 ghostscript-debugsource 0:9.56.1-7.amzn2023.0.3
Amazon Linux · 2023 ghostscript-doc 0:9.56.1-7.amzn2023.0.3
Amazon Linux · 2023 ghostscript-gtk 0:9.56.1-7.amzn2023.0.3
Amazon Linux · 2023 ghostscript-gtk-debuginfo 0:9.56.1-7.amzn2023.0.3
Amazon Linux · 2023 ghostscript-tools-dvipdf 0:9.56.1-7.amzn2023.0.3
Amazon Linux · 2023 ghostscript-tools-fonts 0:9.56.1-7.amzn2023.0.3
Amazon Linux · 2023 ghostscript-tools-printing 0:9.56.1-7.amzn2023.0.3
Amazon Linux · 2023 ghostscript-x11 0:9.56.1-7.amzn2023.0.3
Amazon Linux · 2023 ghostscript-x11-debuginfo 0:9.56.1-7.amzn2023.0.3
Amazon Linux · 2023 libgs 0:9.56.1-7.amzn2023.0.3
Amazon Linux · 2023 libgs-debuginfo 0:9.56.1-7.amzn2023.0.3
Amazon Linux · 2023 libgs-devel 0:9.56.1-7.amzn2023.0.3

Vulnerabilities 2

References

  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2020-21710.html
  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2023-38559.html