Amazon Linux 2 Security Advisory: ALAS-2024-2469
Advisory Release Date: 2024-02-15 03:52 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2024-02-19 17:36 Pacific
Severity:
Important
Issue Overview:
Artifex Ghostscript before 9.53.0 has an out-of-bounds write and use-after-free in devices/vector/gdevtxtw.c (for txtwrite) because a single character code in a PDF document can map to more than one Unicode code point (e.g., for a ligature). (CVE-2020-36773)
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:
aarch64:
ghostscript-9.25-5.amzn2.0.9.aarch64
libgs-9.25-5.amzn2.0.9.aarch64
libgs-devel-9.25-5.amzn2.0.9.aarch64
ghostscript-gtk-9.25-5.amzn2.0.9.aarch64
ghostscript-cups-9.25-5.amzn2.0.9.aarch64
ghostscript-debuginfo-9.25-5.amzn2.0.9.aarch64
i686:
ghostscript-9.25-5.amzn2.0.9.i686
libgs-9.25-5.amzn2.0.9.i686
libgs-devel-9.25-5.amzn2.0.9.i686
ghostscript-gtk-9.25-5.amzn2.0.9.i686
ghostscript-cups-9.25-5.amzn2.0.9.i686
ghostscript-debuginfo-9.25-5.amzn2.0.9.i686
noarch:
ghostscript-doc-9.25-5.amzn2.0.9.noarch
src:
ghostscript-9.25-5.amzn2.0.9.src
x86_64:
ghostscript-9.25-5.amzn2.0.9.x86_64
libgs-9.25-5.amzn2.0.9.x86_64
libgs-devel-9.25-5.amzn2.0.9.x86_64
ghostscript-gtk-9.25-5.amzn2.0.9.x86_64
ghostscript-cups-9.25-5.amzn2.0.9.x86_64
ghostscript-debuginfo-9.25-5.amzn2.0.9.x86_64