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High ALAS2023-2025-1218 3 CVEs

Important: ghostscript security update (Amazon Linux 2023)

Published Oct 14, 2025 · Updated Oct 14, 2025

Ecosystem: Amazon Linux

Summary

Package updates are available for Amazon Linux 2023 that fix the following vulnerabilities: CVE-2025-59800: In Artifex Ghostscript through 10.05.1, ocr_begin_page in devices/gdevpdfocr.c has an integer overflow that leads to a heap-based buffer overflow in ocr_line8. CVE-2025-59799: Artifex Ghostscript through 10.05.1 has a stack-based buffer overflow in pdfmark_coerce_dest in devices/vector/gdevpdfm.c via a large size value. CVE-2025-59798: Artifex Ghostscript through 10.05.1 has a stack-based buffer overflow in pdf_write_cmap in devices/vector/gdevpdtw.c.

Fixed packages 14

ReleasePackageFixed in
Amazon Linux · 2023 ghostscript 0:9.56.1-7.amzn2023.0.19
Amazon Linux · 2023 ghostscript-debuginfo 0:9.56.1-7.amzn2023.0.19
Amazon Linux · 2023 ghostscript-debugsource 0:9.56.1-7.amzn2023.0.19
Amazon Linux · 2023 ghostscript-doc 0:9.56.1-7.amzn2023.0.19
Amazon Linux · 2023 ghostscript-gtk 0:9.56.1-7.amzn2023.0.19
Amazon Linux · 2023 ghostscript-gtk-debuginfo 0:9.56.1-7.amzn2023.0.19
Amazon Linux · 2023 ghostscript-tools-dvipdf 0:9.56.1-7.amzn2023.0.19
Amazon Linux · 2023 ghostscript-tools-fonts 0:9.56.1-7.amzn2023.0.19
Amazon Linux · 2023 ghostscript-tools-printing 0:9.56.1-7.amzn2023.0.19
Amazon Linux · 2023 ghostscript-x11 0:9.56.1-7.amzn2023.0.19
Amazon Linux · 2023 ghostscript-x11-debuginfo 0:9.56.1-7.amzn2023.0.19
Amazon Linux · 2023 libgs 0:9.56.1-7.amzn2023.0.19
Amazon Linux · 2023 libgs-debuginfo 0:9.56.1-7.amzn2023.0.19
Amazon Linux · 2023 libgs-devel 0:9.56.1-7.amzn2023.0.19

Vulnerabilities 3

References

  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2025-59798.html
  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2025-59799.html
  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2025-59800.html