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Amazon Linux AMI Security Advisory: ALAS-2012-127
Advisory Release Date: 2012-09-22 21:37 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2014-09-14 17:04 Pacific
Severity:
Medium
Issue Overview:
An integer overflow flaw, leading to a heap-based buffer overflow, was found in Ghostscript's International Color Consortium Format library (icclib). An attacker could create a specially-crafted PostScript or PDF file with embedded images that would cause Ghostscript to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running Ghostscript. (CVE-2012-4405)
Affected Packages:
ghostscript
Issue Correction:
Run yum update ghostscript to update your system.
New Packages:
i686:
ghostscript-doc-8.70-15.22.amzn1.i686
ghostscript-devel-8.70-15.22.amzn1.i686
ghostscript-8.70-15.22.amzn1.i686
ghostscript-debuginfo-8.70-15.22.amzn1.i686
src:
ghostscript-8.70-15.22.amzn1.src
x86_64:
ghostscript-devel-8.70-15.22.amzn1.x86_64
ghostscript-debuginfo-8.70-15.22.amzn1.x86_64
ghostscript-doc-8.70-15.22.amzn1.x86_64
ghostscript-8.70-15.22.amzn1.x86_64