Arbitrary Code Injection Affecting ghostscript package, versions <0:8.70-11.20.amzn1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on Amazon Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.47% (38th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-AMZN201803-GHOSTSCRIPT-1663150
  • published27 Sept 2021
  • disclosed27 Oct 2014

Introduced: 27 Oct 2014

CVE-2010-4820  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-94  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Amazon-Linux:2018.03 ghostscript to version 0:8.70-11.20.amzn1 or higher.
This issue was patched in ALAS-2012-42.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream ghostscript package and not the ghostscript package as distributed by Amazon-Linux. See How to fix? for Amazon-Linux:2018.03 relevant fixed versions and status.

Untrusted search path vulnerability in Ghostscript 8.62 allows local users to execute arbitrary PostScript code via a Trojan horse Postscript library file in Encoding/ under the current working directory, a different vulnerability than CVE-2010-2055.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1