ALAS-2024-2422

Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2023-46751  

An issue was discovered in the function gdev_prn_open_printer_seekable() in Artifex Ghostscript through 10.02.0 allows remote attackers to crash the application via a dangling pointer. (CVE-2023-46751)

ALAS-2024-2422


Amazon Linux 2 Security Advisory: ALAS-2024-2422
Advisory Release Date: 2024-01-19 01:51 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2024-01-22 20:21 Pacific
Severity: Important

Issue Overview:

An issue was discovered in the function gdev_prn_open_printer_seekable() in Artifex Ghostscript through 10.02.0 allows remote attackers to crash the application via a dangling pointer. (CVE-2023-46751)


Affected Packages:

ghostscript


Note:

This advisory is applicable to Amazon Linux 2 (AL2) Core repository. Visit this FAQ section for the difference between AL2 Core and AL2 Extras advisories.


Issue Correction:
Run yum update ghostscript to update your system.

New Packages:
aarch64:
    ghostscript-9.25-5.amzn2.0.8.aarch64
    libgs-9.25-5.amzn2.0.8.aarch64
    libgs-devel-9.25-5.amzn2.0.8.aarch64
    ghostscript-gtk-9.25-5.amzn2.0.8.aarch64
    ghostscript-cups-9.25-5.amzn2.0.8.aarch64
    ghostscript-debuginfo-9.25-5.amzn2.0.8.aarch64

i686:
    ghostscript-9.25-5.amzn2.0.8.i686
    libgs-9.25-5.amzn2.0.8.i686
    libgs-devel-9.25-5.amzn2.0.8.i686
    ghostscript-gtk-9.25-5.amzn2.0.8.i686
    ghostscript-cups-9.25-5.amzn2.0.8.i686
    ghostscript-debuginfo-9.25-5.amzn2.0.8.i686

noarch:
    ghostscript-doc-9.25-5.amzn2.0.8.noarch

src:
    ghostscript-9.25-5.amzn2.0.8.src

x86_64:
    ghostscript-9.25-5.amzn2.0.8.x86_64
    libgs-9.25-5.amzn2.0.8.x86_64
    libgs-devel-9.25-5.amzn2.0.8.x86_64
    ghostscript-gtk-9.25-5.amzn2.0.8.x86_64
    ghostscript-cups-9.25-5.amzn2.0.8.x86_64
    ghostscript-debuginfo-9.25-5.amzn2.0.8.x86_64