vulnerability
Amazon Linux AMI: CVE-2020-16305: Security patch for ghostscript (ALAS-2023-1854)
| Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P) | Aug 13, 2020 | Oct 7, 2023 | Oct 7, 2023 |
Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Aug 13, 2020
Added
Oct 7, 2023
Modified
Oct 7, 2023
Description
A buffer overflow vulnerability in pcx_write_rle() in contrib/japanese/gdev10v.c of Artifex Software GhostScript v9.50 allows a remote attacker to cause a denial of service via a crafted PDF file. This is fixed in v9.51.
Solution
amazon-linux-upgrade-ghostscript
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