Amazon Linux 1 (EOL) Security Advisory: ALAS-2017-837
Advisory Released Date: 2017-06-06
Advisory Updated Date: 2017-06-06
Severity:
Important
Issue Overview:
It was found that ghostscript did not properly validate the parameters passed
to the .rsdparams and .eqproc functions. During its execution, a specially
crafted PostScript document could execute code in the context of the ghostscript
process, bypassing the -dSAFER protection. (CVE-2017-8291)
Affected Packages:
ghostscript
Issue Correction:
Run yum update ghostscript or yum update --advisory ALAS-2017-837 to update your system.
New Packages:
i686:
ghostscript-8.70-23.25.amzn1.i686
ghostscript-debuginfo-8.70-23.25.amzn1.i686
ghostscript-doc-8.70-23.25.amzn1.i686
ghostscript-devel-8.70-23.25.amzn1.i686
src:
ghostscript-8.70-23.25.amzn1.src
x86_64:
ghostscript-doc-8.70-23.25.amzn1.x86_64
ghostscript-devel-8.70-23.25.amzn1.x86_64
ghostscript-debuginfo-8.70-23.25.amzn1.x86_64
ghostscript-8.70-23.25.amzn1.x86_64