Medium: ghostscript

Issue Overview:

The set_text_distance function in devices/vector/gdevpdts.c in the pdfwrite component in Artifex Ghostscript through 9.22 does not prevent overflows in text-positioning calculation, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted PDF document. (CVE-2018-10194)

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:

noarch:  
    ghostscript-doc-9.06-2.amzn2.0.2.noarch  
  
src:  
    ghostscript-9.06-2.amzn2.0.2.src  
  
x86_64:  
    ghostscript-9.06-2.amzn2.0.2.x86_64  
    ghostscript-devel-9.06-2.amzn2.0.2.x86_64  
    ghostscript-gtk-9.06-2.amzn2.0.2.x86_64  
    ghostscript-cups-9.06-2.amzn2.0.2.x86_64  
    ghostscript-debuginfo-9.06-2.amzn2.0.2.x86_64  

Additional References

Red Hat: CVE-2018-10194

Mitre: CVE-2018-10194