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Amazon Linux AMI Security Advisory: ALAS-2023-1734
Advisory Release Date: 2023-04-27 16:19 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2023-05-03 18:49 Pacific
Severity:
Important
Issue Overview:
In Artifex Ghostscript through 10.01.0, there is a buffer overflow leading to potential corruption of data internal to the PostScript interpreter, in base/sbcp.c. This affects BCPEncode, BCPDecode, TBCPEncode, and TBCPDecode. If the write buffer is filled to one byte less than full, and one then tries to write an escaped character, two bytes are written. (CVE-2023-28879)
Affected Packages:
ghostscript
Issue Correction:
Run yum update ghostscript to update your system.
New Packages:
i686:
ghostscript-devel-8.70-24.28.amzn1.i686
ghostscript-8.70-24.28.amzn1.i686
ghostscript-doc-8.70-24.28.amzn1.i686
ghostscript-debuginfo-8.70-24.28.amzn1.i686
src:
ghostscript-8.70-24.28.amzn1.src
x86_64:
ghostscript-devel-8.70-24.28.amzn1.x86_64
ghostscript-doc-8.70-24.28.amzn1.x86_64
ghostscript-debuginfo-8.70-24.28.amzn1.x86_64
ghostscript-8.70-24.28.amzn1.x86_64