Amazon Linux 2 Security Advisory: ALAS-2024-2614
Advisory Release Date: 2024-08-01 03:01 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2024-08-13 09:45 Pacific
Severity:
Medium
Issue Overview:
Artifex Ghostscript before 10.03.0 has a heap-based pointer disclosure (observable in a constructed BaseFont name) in the function pdf_base_font_alloc. (CVE-2024-29508)
Artifex Ghostscript before 10.03.1, when Tesseract is used for OCR, has a directory traversal issue that allows arbitrary file reading (and writing of error messages to arbitrary files) via OCRLanguage. For example, exploitation can use debug_file /tmp/out and user_patterns_file /etc/passwd. (CVE-2024-29511)
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.amzn2.0.5.aarch64
libgs-9.54.0-9.amzn2.0.5.aarch64
libgs-devel-9.54.0-9.amzn2.0.5.aarch64
ghostscript-gtk-9.54.0-9.amzn2.0.5.aarch64
ghostscript-cups-9.54.0-9.amzn2.0.5.aarch64
ghostscript-debuginfo-9.54.0-9.amzn2.0.5.aarch64
i686:
ghostscript-9.54.0-9.amzn2.0.5.i686
libgs-9.54.0-9.amzn2.0.5.i686
libgs-devel-9.54.0-9.amzn2.0.5.i686
ghostscript-gtk-9.54.0-9.amzn2.0.5.i686
ghostscript-cups-9.54.0-9.amzn2.0.5.i686
ghostscript-debuginfo-9.54.0-9.amzn2.0.5.i686
noarch:
ghostscript-doc-9.54.0-9.amzn2.0.5.noarch
src:
ghostscript-9.54.0-9.amzn2.0.5.src
x86_64:
ghostscript-9.54.0-9.amzn2.0.5.x86_64
libgs-9.54.0-9.amzn2.0.5.x86_64
libgs-devel-9.54.0-9.amzn2.0.5.x86_64
ghostscript-gtk-9.54.0-9.amzn2.0.5.x86_64
ghostscript-cups-9.54.0-9.amzn2.0.5.x86_64
ghostscript-debuginfo-9.54.0-9.amzn2.0.5.x86_64