Important: ghostscript

Issue Overview:

Artifex Ghostscript before 9.53.0 has an out-of-bounds write and use-after-free in devices/vector/gdevtxtw.c (for txtwrite) because a single character code in a PDF document can map to more than one Unicode code point (e.g., for a ligature). (CVE-2020-36773)

Affected Packages:

ghostscript

Note:

This advisory is applicable to Amazon Linux 2 (AL2) Core repository. Visit this FAQ section for the difference between AL2 Core and AL2 Extras advisories.

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

New Packages:

aarch64:  
    ghostscript-9.25-5.amzn2.0.9.aarch64  
    libgs-9.25-5.amzn2.0.9.aarch64  
    libgs-devel-9.25-5.amzn2.0.9.aarch64  
    ghostscript-gtk-9.25-5.amzn2.0.9.aarch64  
    ghostscript-cups-9.25-5.amzn2.0.9.aarch64  
    ghostscript-debuginfo-9.25-5.amzn2.0.9.aarch64  
  
i686:  
    ghostscript-9.25-5.amzn2.0.9.i686  
    libgs-9.25-5.amzn2.0.9.i686  
    libgs-devel-9.25-5.amzn2.0.9.i686  
    ghostscript-gtk-9.25-5.amzn2.0.9.i686  
    ghostscript-cups-9.25-5.amzn2.0.9.i686  
    ghostscript-debuginfo-9.25-5.amzn2.0.9.i686  
  
noarch:  
    ghostscript-doc-9.25-5.amzn2.0.9.noarch  
  
src:  
    ghostscript-9.25-5.amzn2.0.9.src  
  
x86_64:  
    ghostscript-9.25-5.amzn2.0.9.x86_64  
    libgs-9.25-5.amzn2.0.9.x86_64  
    libgs-devel-9.25-5.amzn2.0.9.x86_64  
    ghostscript-gtk-9.25-5.amzn2.0.9.x86_64  
    ghostscript-cups-9.25-5.amzn2.0.9.x86_64  
    ghostscript-debuginfo-9.25-5.amzn2.0.9.x86_64  

Additional References

Red Hat: CVE-2020-36773

Mitre: CVE-2020-36773