QID 355381

Date Published: 2023-06-08

QID 355381: Amazon Linux Security Advisory for ghostscript : AL2012-2023-410

Package updates are available for Amazon Linux that fix the following vulnerabilities:
CVE-2023-28879:
In Artifex Ghostscript through 10.01.0, there is a buffer overflow leading to potential corruption of data internal to the PostScript interpreter, in base/sbcp.c. This affects BCPEncode, BCPDecode, TBCPEncode, and TBCPDecode. If the write buffer is filled to one byte less than full, and one then tries to write an escaped character, two bytes are written.

Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could lead to a security breach or could affect integrity, availability, and confidentiality.

CVSS V3 rated as Critical - 9.8 severity.

CVSS V2 rated as Medium - 5.4 severity.

Solution

Administrators are advised to apply the appropriate software updates.

Vendor References

CVEs related to QID 355381

CVE-2023-28879 |

Software Advisories

Advisory ID	Software	Component	Link
AL2012-2023-410	Amazon Linux Bare Metal		docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/install-updates.html

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