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Amazon Linux 2023: CVE-2024-29509: Medium priority package update for ghostscript

Severity
6
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P)
Published
Jul 3, 2024
Added
Feb 17, 2025
Modified
Jul 4, 2025

Description

Artifex Ghostscript before 10.03.0 has a heap-based overflow when PDFPassword (e.g., for runpdf) has a \000 byte in the middle.
A flaw was found in Ghostscript. The `runpdf` command allowed the new C-based PDF interpreter to be invoked from within PS. With this, it can pass various flags and arguments (for example, see `pdf_impl_set_param`) normally passed via the command line when the PDF interpreter is invoked directly. Because PS-strings are not null-terminated, this issue will result in a heap buffer overflow when a value of `PDFPassword` is supplied with a NULL byte in the middle.

Solutions

amazon-linux-2023-upgrade-ghostscriptamazon-linux-2023-upgrade-ghostscript-debuginfoamazon-linux-2023-upgrade-ghostscript-debugsourceamazon-linux-2023-upgrade-ghostscript-docamazon-linux-2023-upgrade-ghostscript-gtkamazon-linux-2023-upgrade-ghostscript-gtk-debuginfoamazon-linux-2023-upgrade-ghostscript-tools-dvipdfamazon-linux-2023-upgrade-ghostscript-tools-fontsamazon-linux-2023-upgrade-ghostscript-tools-printingamazon-linux-2023-upgrade-ghostscript-x11amazon-linux-2023-upgrade-ghostscript-x11-debuginfoamazon-linux-2023-upgrade-libgsamazon-linux-2023-upgrade-libgs-debuginfoamazon-linux-2023-upgrade-libgs-devel
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