ALAS-2023-1867


Amazon Linux 1 (EOL) Security Advisory: ALAS-2023-1867
Advisory Released Date: 2023-10-24
Advisory Updated Date: 2023-10-24
Severity: Medium

Issue Overview:

A buffer overflow vulnerability in epsc_print_page() in devices/gdevepsc.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-2020-16294)


Affected Packages:

ghostscript


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

New Packages:
i686:
    ghostscript-devel-8.70-24.33.amzn1.i686
    ghostscript-debuginfo-8.70-24.33.amzn1.i686
    ghostscript-8.70-24.33.amzn1.i686
    ghostscript-doc-8.70-24.33.amzn1.i686

src:
    ghostscript-8.70-24.33.amzn1.src

x86_64:
    ghostscript-8.70-24.33.amzn1.x86_64
    ghostscript-devel-8.70-24.33.amzn1.x86_64
    ghostscript-doc-8.70-24.33.amzn1.x86_64
    ghostscript-debuginfo-8.70-24.33.amzn1.x86_64