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Red Hat: RHSA-2023:4325 Critical: ImageMagick Buffer Overflow

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Calendar Grey July 31, 2023
Dist Redhat Esm H88
Ubuntu has issued a critical patch for ImageMagick tackling a major code execution vulnerability.
An update for ghostscript is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.0 Extended Update Support

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Summary

The Ghostscript suite contains utilities for rendering PostScript and PDF documents. Ghostscript translates PostScript code to common bitmap formats so that the code can be displayed or printed.
Security Fix(es):
* ghostscript: vulnerable to OS command injection due to mishandles permission validation for pipe devices (CVE-2023-36664)
For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory update red hat ghostscript important command injection

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-36664 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification#important

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream EUS (v.9.0):
Source: ghostscript-9.54.0-7.el9_0.1.src.rpm
aarch64: ghostscript-9.54.0-7.el9_0.1.aarch64.rpm ghostscript-debuginfo-9.54.0-7.el9_0.1.aarch64.rpm ghostscript-debugsource-9.54.0-7.el9_0.1.aarch64.rpm ghostscript-gtk-debuginfo-9.54.0-7.el9_0.1.aarch64.rpm ghostscript-tools-dvipdf-9.54.0-7.el9_0.1.aarch64.rpm ghostscript-tools-fonts-9.54.0-7.el9_0.1.aarch64.rpm ghostscript-tools-printing-9.54.0-7.el9_0.1.aarch64.rpm ghostscript-x11-9.54.0-7.el9_0.1.aarch64.rpm ghostscript-x11-debuginfo-9.54.0-7.el9_0.1.aarch64.rpm libgs-9.54.0-7.el9_0.1.aarch64.rpm libgs-debuginfo-9.54.0-7.el9_0.1.aarch64.rpm
noarch: ghostscript-doc-9.54.0-7.el9_0.1.noarch.rpm
ppc64le: ghostscript-9.54.0-7.el9_0.1.ppc64le.rpm ghostscript-debuginfo-9.54.0-7.el9_0.1.ppc64le.rpm ghostscript-debugsource-9.54.0-7.el9_0.1.ppc64le.rpm ghostscript-gtk-debuginfo-9.54.0-7.el9_0.1.ppc64le.rpm ghostscript-tools-dvipdf-9.54.0-7.el9_0.1.ppc64le.rpm ghostscript-tools-fonts-9.54.0-7.el9_0.1.ppc64le.rpm ghostscript-tools-printing-9.54.0-7.el9_0.1.ppc64le.rpm ghostscript-x11-9.54.0-7.el9_0.1.ppc64le.rpm ghostscript-x11-debuginfo-9.54.0-7.el9_0.1.ppc64le.rpm libgs-9.54.0-7.el9_0.1.ppc64le.rpm libgs-debuginfo-9.54.0-7.el9_0.1.ppc64le.rpm
s390x:

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Severity
important
Lowest
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Medium
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Critical

Advisory ID: RHSA-2023:4324-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:4324
Issue date: 2023-07-31

Topic

An update for ghostscript is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.0Extended Update Support.Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impactof Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score,which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerabilityfrom the CVE link(s) in the References section.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory update red hat ghostscript important command injection

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder EUS (v.9.0) - aarch64, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream EUS (v.9.0) - aarch64, noarch, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

Bugs Fixed

2217798 - CVE-2023-36664 ghostscript: vulnerable to OS command injection due to mishandles permission validation for pipe devices

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