Amazon Linux 2 Security Advisory: ALAS-2018-1022
Advisory Release Date: 2018-05-24 18:11 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2018-05-29 23:19 Pacific
Severity:
Medium
Issue Overview:
The set_text_distance function in devices/vector/gdevpdts.c in the pdfwrite component in Artifex Ghostscript through 9.22 does not prevent overflows in text-positioning calculation, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted PDF document. (CVE-2018-10194)
Affected Packages:
ghostscript
Note:
This advisory is applicable to Amazon Linux 2 (AL2) Core repository. Visit this FAQ section for the difference between AL2 Core and AL2 Extras advisories.
Issue Correction:
Run yum update ghostscript to update your system.
New Packages:
noarch:
ghostscript-doc-9.06-2.amzn2.0.2.noarch
src:
ghostscript-9.06-2.amzn2.0.2.src
x86_64:
ghostscript-9.06-2.amzn2.0.2.x86_64
ghostscript-devel-9.06-2.amzn2.0.2.x86_64
ghostscript-gtk-9.06-2.amzn2.0.2.x86_64
ghostscript-cups-9.06-2.amzn2.0.2.x86_64
ghostscript-debuginfo-9.06-2.amzn2.0.2.x86_64