Amazon Linux 2023 Security Advisory: ALAS2023-2025-1118
Advisory Released Date: 2025-08-08
Advisory Updated Date: 2025-08-08
Severity:
Medium
Issue Overview:
A vulnerability was found in Artifex GhostPDL up to 3989415a5b8e99b9d1b87cc9902bde9b7cdea145. It has been classified as problematic. This affects the function pdf_ferror of the file devices/vector/gdevpdf.c of the component New Output File Open Error Handler. The manipulation leads to null pointer dereference. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. The identifier of the patch is 619a106ba4c4abed95110f84d5efcd7aee38c7cb. It is recommended to apply a patch to fix this issue. (CVE-2025-7462)
Affected Packages:
ghostscript
Issue Correction:
Run dnf update ghostscript --releasever 2023.8.20250808 or dnf update --advisory ALAS2023-2025-1118 --releasever 2023.8.20250808 to update your system.
More information on how to update your system can be found on this page: Amazon Linux 2023 documentation
New Packages:
aarch64:
libgs-debuginfo-9.56.1-7.amzn2023.0.18.aarch64
ghostscript-gtk-debuginfo-9.56.1-7.amzn2023.0.18.aarch64
ghostscript-tools-printing-9.56.1-7.amzn2023.0.18.aarch64
ghostscript-x11-9.56.1-7.amzn2023.0.18.aarch64
ghostscript-tools-dvipdf-9.56.1-7.amzn2023.0.18.aarch64
ghostscript-debuginfo-9.56.1-7.amzn2023.0.18.aarch64
libgs-devel-9.56.1-7.amzn2023.0.18.aarch64
ghostscript-x11-debuginfo-9.56.1-7.amzn2023.0.18.aarch64
ghostscript-gtk-9.56.1-7.amzn2023.0.18.aarch64
libgs-9.56.1-7.amzn2023.0.18.aarch64
ghostscript-tools-fonts-9.56.1-7.amzn2023.0.18.aarch64
ghostscript-9.56.1-7.amzn2023.0.18.aarch64
ghostscript-debugsource-9.56.1-7.amzn2023.0.18.aarch64
noarch:
ghostscript-doc-9.56.1-7.amzn2023.0.18.noarch
src:
ghostscript-9.56.1-7.amzn2023.0.18.src
x86_64:
ghostscript-gtk-debuginfo-9.56.1-7.amzn2023.0.18.x86_64
ghostscript-tools-dvipdf-9.56.1-7.amzn2023.0.18.x86_64
ghostscript-x11-9.56.1-7.amzn2023.0.18.x86_64
ghostscript-gtk-9.56.1-7.amzn2023.0.18.x86_64
ghostscript-tools-printing-9.56.1-7.amzn2023.0.18.x86_64
ghostscript-tools-fonts-9.56.1-7.amzn2023.0.18.x86_64
libgs-devel-9.56.1-7.amzn2023.0.18.x86_64
ghostscript-debuginfo-9.56.1-7.amzn2023.0.18.x86_64
libgs-debuginfo-9.56.1-7.amzn2023.0.18.x86_64
ghostscript-9.56.1-7.amzn2023.0.18.x86_64
ghostscript-x11-debuginfo-9.56.1-7.amzn2023.0.18.x86_64
libgs-9.56.1-7.amzn2023.0.18.x86_64
ghostscript-debugsource-9.56.1-7.amzn2023.0.18.x86_64