Medium: ghostscript

2023-09-2722:15:00

alas.aws.amazon.com

ghostscript

divide by zero

denial of service

pdf

update

cve-2020-21710

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

40.8%

JSON

Issue Overview:

A divide by zero issue discovered in eps_print_page in gdevepsn.c in Artifex Software GhostScript 9.50 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via opening of crafted PDF file. (CVE-2020-21710)

Affected Packages:

ghostscript

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

New Packages:

i686:  
    ghostscript-devel-8.70-24.32.amzn1.i686  
    ghostscript-debuginfo-8.70-24.32.amzn1.i686  
    ghostscript-8.70-24.32.amzn1.i686  
    ghostscript-doc-8.70-24.32.amzn1.i686  
  
src:  
    ghostscript-8.70-24.32.amzn1.src  
  
x86_64:  
    ghostscript-debuginfo-8.70-24.32.amzn1.x86_64  
    ghostscript-devel-8.70-24.32.amzn1.x86_64  
    ghostscript-doc-8.70-24.32.amzn1.x86_64  
    ghostscript-8.70-24.32.amzn1.x86_64

Additional References

Red Hat: CVE-2020-21710

Mitre: CVE-2020-21710

OSVersionArchitecturePackageVersionFilename
Amazon Linux1i686ghostscript-devel< 8.70-24.32.amzn1ghostscript-devel-8.70-24.32.amzn1.i686.rpm
Amazon Linux1i686ghostscript-debuginfo< 8.70-24.32.amzn1ghostscript-debuginfo-8.70-24.32.amzn1.i686.rpm
Amazon Linux1i686ghostscript< 8.70-24.32.amzn1ghostscript-8.70-24.32.amzn1.i686.rpm
Amazon Linux1i686ghostscript-doc< 8.70-24.32.amzn1ghostscript-doc-8.70-24.32.amzn1.i686.rpm
Amazon Linux1x86_64ghostscript-debuginfo< 8.70-24.32.amzn1ghostscript-debuginfo-8.70-24.32.amzn1.x86_64.rpm
Amazon Linux1x86_64ghostscript-devel< 8.70-24.32.amzn1ghostscript-devel-8.70-24.32.amzn1.x86_64.rpm
Amazon Linux1x86_64ghostscript-doc< 8.70-24.32.amzn1ghostscript-doc-8.70-24.32.amzn1.x86_64.rpm
Amazon Linux1x86_64ghostscript< 8.70-24.32.amzn1ghostscript-8.70-24.32.amzn1.x86_64.rpm

OS	Version	Architecture	Package	Version	Filename
Amazon Linux	1	i686	ghostscript-devel	< 8.70-24.32.amzn1	ghostscript-devel-8.70-24.32.amzn1.i686.rpm
Amazon Linux	1	i686	ghostscript-debuginfo	< 8.70-24.32.amzn1	ghostscript-debuginfo-8.70-24.32.amzn1.i686.rpm
Amazon Linux	1	i686	ghostscript	< 8.70-24.32.amzn1	ghostscript-8.70-24.32.amzn1.i686.rpm
Amazon Linux	1	i686	ghostscript-doc	< 8.70-24.32.amzn1	ghostscript-doc-8.70-24.32.amzn1.i686.rpm
Amazon Linux	1	x86_64	ghostscript-debuginfo	< 8.70-24.32.amzn1	ghostscript-debuginfo-8.70-24.32.amzn1.x86_64.rpm
Amazon Linux	1	x86_64	ghostscript-devel	< 8.70-24.32.amzn1	ghostscript-devel-8.70-24.32.amzn1.x86_64.rpm
Amazon Linux	1	x86_64	ghostscript-doc	< 8.70-24.32.amzn1	ghostscript-doc-8.70-24.32.amzn1.x86_64.rpm
Amazon Linux	1	x86_64	ghostscript	< 8.70-24.32.amzn1	ghostscript-8.70-24.32.amzn1.x86_64.rpm