ALAS2-2023-2261

Related 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. (CVE-2020-16305)

ALAS2-2023-2261


Amazon Linux 2 Security Advisory: ALAS-2023-2261
Advisory Release Date: 2023-09-13 23:44 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2023-09-20 19:39 Pacific
Severity: Medium

Issue Overview:

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. (CVE-2020-16305)


Affected Packages:

ghostscript


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

New Packages:
aarch64:
    ghostscript-9.25-5.amzn2.0.6.aarch64
    libgs-9.25-5.amzn2.0.6.aarch64
    libgs-devel-9.25-5.amzn2.0.6.aarch64
    ghostscript-gtk-9.25-5.amzn2.0.6.aarch64
    ghostscript-cups-9.25-5.amzn2.0.6.aarch64
    ghostscript-debuginfo-9.25-5.amzn2.0.6.aarch64

i686:
    ghostscript-9.25-5.amzn2.0.6.i686
    libgs-9.25-5.amzn2.0.6.i686
    libgs-devel-9.25-5.amzn2.0.6.i686
    ghostscript-gtk-9.25-5.amzn2.0.6.i686
    ghostscript-cups-9.25-5.amzn2.0.6.i686
    ghostscript-debuginfo-9.25-5.amzn2.0.6.i686

noarch:
    ghostscript-doc-9.25-5.amzn2.0.6.noarch

src:
    ghostscript-9.25-5.amzn2.0.6.src

x86_64:
    ghostscript-9.25-5.amzn2.0.6.x86_64
    libgs-9.25-5.amzn2.0.6.x86_64
    libgs-devel-9.25-5.amzn2.0.6.x86_64
    ghostscript-gtk-9.25-5.amzn2.0.6.x86_64
    ghostscript-cups-9.25-5.amzn2.0.6.x86_64
    ghostscript-debuginfo-9.25-5.amzn2.0.6.x86_64