Issue Overview:
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.
New Packages:
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
Red Hat: CVE-2018-16509
Mitre: CVE-2018-16509
OS | Version | Architecture | Package | Version | Filename |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Amazon Linux | 1 | i686 | ghostscript-doc | < 8.70-24.26.amzn1 | ghostscript-doc-8.70-24.26.amzn1.i686.rpm |
Amazon Linux | 1 | i686 | ghostscript | < 8.70-24.26.amzn1 | ghostscript-8.70-24.26.amzn1.i686.rpm |
Amazon Linux | 1 | i686 | ghostscript-debuginfo | < 8.70-24.26.amzn1 | ghostscript-debuginfo-8.70-24.26.amzn1.i686.rpm |
Amazon Linux | 1 | i686 | ghostscript-devel | < 8.70-24.26.amzn1 | ghostscript-devel-8.70-24.26.amzn1.i686.rpm |
Amazon Linux | 1 | x86_64 | ghostscript-debuginfo | < 8.70-24.26.amzn1 | ghostscript-debuginfo-8.70-24.26.amzn1.x86_64.rpm |
Amazon Linux | 1 | x86_64 | ghostscript-doc | < 8.70-24.26.amzn1 | ghostscript-doc-8.70-24.26.amzn1.x86_64.rpm |
Amazon Linux | 1 | x86_64 | ghostscript | < 8.70-24.26.amzn1 | ghostscript-8.70-24.26.amzn1.x86_64.rpm |
Amazon Linux | 1 | x86_64 | ghostscript-devel | < 8.70-24.26.amzn1 | ghostscript-devel-8.70-24.26.amzn1.x86_64.rpm |