Amazon Linux 1 Security Advisory: ALAS-2018-1137
Advisory Release Date: 2018-12-20 00:04 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2018-12-20 23:29 Pacific
It was discovered that the ghostscript /invalidaccess checks fail under certain conditions. An attacker could possibly exploit this to bypass the -dSAFER protection and, for example, execute arbitrary shell commands via a specially crafted PostScript document.(CVE-2018-16509)
Affected Packages:
ghostscript
Issue Correction:
Run yum update ghostscript to update your system.
i686:
ghostscript-doc-8.70-24.26.amzn1.i686
ghostscript-8.70-24.26.amzn1.i686
ghostscript-debuginfo-8.70-24.26.amzn1.i686
ghostscript-devel-8.70-24.26.amzn1.i686
src:
ghostscript-8.70-24.26.amzn1.src
x86_64:
ghostscript-debuginfo-8.70-24.26.amzn1.x86_64
ghostscript-doc-8.70-24.26.amzn1.x86_64
ghostscript-8.70-24.26.amzn1.x86_64
ghostscript-devel-8.70-24.26.amzn1.x86_64