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Amazon Linux AMI 2: CVE-2018-15911: Security patch for ghostscript (ALAS-2018-1088)

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Amazon Linux AMI 2: CVE-2018-15911: Security patch for ghostscript (ALAS-2018-1088)

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
08/28/2018
Created
05/08/2020
Added
04/27/2020
Modified
09/30/2022

Description

In Artifex Ghostscript 9.23 before 2018-08-24, attackers able to supply crafted PostScript could use uninitialized memory access in the aesdecode operator to crash the interpreter or potentially execute code.

Solution(s)

  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-ghostscript
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-ghostscript-cups
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-ghostscript-debuginfo
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-ghostscript-devel
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-ghostscript-doc
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-ghostscript-gtk

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