ALAS-2024-2544


Amazon Linux 2 Security Advisory: ALAS-2024-2544
Advisory Release Date: 2024-05-09 19:16 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2024-05-15 19:24 Pacific
Severity: Important

Issue Overview:

Artifex Ghostscript through 10.01.2 mishandles permission validation for pipe devices (with the %pipe% prefix or the | pipe character prefix). (CVE-2023-36664)


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-9.54.0-9.amzn2.0.1.aarch64
    libgs-9.54.0-9.amzn2.0.1.aarch64
    libgs-devel-9.54.0-9.amzn2.0.1.aarch64
    ghostscript-gtk-9.54.0-9.amzn2.0.1.aarch64
    ghostscript-cups-9.54.0-9.amzn2.0.1.aarch64
    ghostscript-debuginfo-9.54.0-9.amzn2.0.1.aarch64

i686:
    ghostscript-9.54.0-9.amzn2.0.1.i686
    libgs-9.54.0-9.amzn2.0.1.i686
    libgs-devel-9.54.0-9.amzn2.0.1.i686
    ghostscript-gtk-9.54.0-9.amzn2.0.1.i686
    ghostscript-cups-9.54.0-9.amzn2.0.1.i686
    ghostscript-debuginfo-9.54.0-9.amzn2.0.1.i686

noarch:
    ghostscript-doc-9.54.0-9.amzn2.0.1.noarch

src:
    ghostscript-9.54.0-9.amzn2.0.1.src

x86_64:
    ghostscript-9.54.0-9.amzn2.0.1.x86_64
    libgs-9.54.0-9.amzn2.0.1.x86_64
    libgs-devel-9.54.0-9.amzn2.0.1.x86_64
    ghostscript-gtk-9.54.0-9.amzn2.0.1.x86_64
    ghostscript-cups-9.54.0-9.amzn2.0.1.x86_64
    ghostscript-debuginfo-9.54.0-9.amzn2.0.1.x86_64