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amazonAmazonALAS-2023-1801
HistoryAug 17, 2023 - 11:39 a.m.

Medium: ghostscript

2023-08-1711:39:00
alas.aws.amazon.com
11
buffer overflow
ghostscript
denial of service
crafted pdf
cve-2023-38559

5.5 Medium

CVSS3

Attack Vector

LOCAL

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction

REQUIRED

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

0.001 Low

EPSS

Percentile

20.3%

Issue Overview:

A buffer overflow flaw was found in base/gdevdevn.c:1973 in devn_pcx_write_rle() in ghostscript. This issue may allow a local attacker to cause a denial of service via outputting a crafted PDF file for a DEVN device with gs. (CVE-2023-38559)

Affected Packages:

ghostscript

Issue Correction:
Run yum update ghostscript to update your system.

New Packages:

i686:  
    ghostscript-8.70-24.29.amzn1.i686  
    ghostscript-doc-8.70-24.29.amzn1.i686  
    ghostscript-debuginfo-8.70-24.29.amzn1.i686  
    ghostscript-devel-8.70-24.29.amzn1.i686  
  
src:  
    ghostscript-8.70-24.29.amzn1.src  
  
x86_64:  
    ghostscript-devel-8.70-24.29.amzn1.x86_64  
    ghostscript-doc-8.70-24.29.amzn1.x86_64  
    ghostscript-8.70-24.29.amzn1.x86_64  
    ghostscript-debuginfo-8.70-24.29.amzn1.x86_64  

Additional References

Red Hat: CVE-2023-38559

Mitre: CVE-2023-38559

5.5 Medium

CVSS3

Attack Vector

LOCAL

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction

REQUIRED

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

0.001 Low

EPSS

Percentile

20.3%