Amazon Linux 1 Security Advisory: ALAS-2017-837
Advisory Release Date: 2017-06-06 16:51 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2017-06-06 22:44 Pacific
It was found that ghostscript did not properly validate the parameters passed
to the .rsdparams and .eqproc functions. During its execution, a specially
crafted PostScript document could execute code in the context of the ghostscript
process, bypassing the -dSAFER protection. (CVE-2017-8291)
Affected Packages:
ghostscript
Issue Correction:
Run yum update ghostscript to update your system.
i686:
ghostscript-8.70-23.25.amzn1.i686
ghostscript-debuginfo-8.70-23.25.amzn1.i686
ghostscript-doc-8.70-23.25.amzn1.i686
ghostscript-devel-8.70-23.25.amzn1.i686
src:
ghostscript-8.70-23.25.amzn1.src
x86_64:
ghostscript-doc-8.70-23.25.amzn1.x86_64
ghostscript-devel-8.70-23.25.amzn1.x86_64
ghostscript-debuginfo-8.70-23.25.amzn1.x86_64
ghostscript-8.70-23.25.amzn1.x86_64