Amazon Linux 2 Security Advisory: ALAS2-2025-3018
Advisory Released Date: 2025-10-14
Advisory Updated Date: 2025-10-14
Severity:
Important
References:
CVE-2025-59798
CVE-2025-59799
CVE-2025-59800
FAQs regarding Amazon Linux ALAS/CVE Severity
FAQs regarding Amazon Linux ALAS/CVE Severity
Issue Overview:
Artifex Ghostscript through 10.05.1 has a stack-based buffer overflow in pdf_write_cmap in devices/vector/gdevpdtw.c. (CVE-2025-59798)
Artifex Ghostscript through 10.05.1 has a stack-based buffer overflow in pdfmark_coerce_dest in devices/vector/gdevpdfm.c via a large size value. (CVE-2025-59799)
In Artifex Ghostscript through 10.05.1, ocr_begin_page in devices/gdevpdfocr.c has an integer overflow that leads to a heap-based buffer overflow in ocr_line8. (CVE-2025-59800)
Affected Packages:
ghostscript
Note:
This advisory is applicable to Amazon Linux 2 (AL2) Core repository. Visit this FAQ section for the difference between AL2 Core and AL2 Extras advisories.
Issue Correction:
Run yum update ghostscript or yum update --advisory ALAS2-2025-3018 to update your system.
New Packages:
aarch64:
ghostscript-9.54.0-9.amzn2.0.13.aarch64
libgs-9.54.0-9.amzn2.0.13.aarch64
libgs-devel-9.54.0-9.amzn2.0.13.aarch64
ghostscript-gtk-9.54.0-9.amzn2.0.13.aarch64
ghostscript-cups-9.54.0-9.amzn2.0.13.aarch64
ghostscript-debuginfo-9.54.0-9.amzn2.0.13.aarch64
i686:
ghostscript-9.54.0-9.amzn2.0.13.i686
libgs-9.54.0-9.amzn2.0.13.i686
libgs-devel-9.54.0-9.amzn2.0.13.i686
ghostscript-gtk-9.54.0-9.amzn2.0.13.i686
ghostscript-cups-9.54.0-9.amzn2.0.13.i686
ghostscript-debuginfo-9.54.0-9.amzn2.0.13.i686
noarch:
ghostscript-doc-9.54.0-9.amzn2.0.13.noarch
src:
ghostscript-9.54.0-9.amzn2.0.13.src
x86_64:
ghostscript-9.54.0-9.amzn2.0.13.x86_64
libgs-9.54.0-9.amzn2.0.13.x86_64
libgs-devel-9.54.0-9.amzn2.0.13.x86_64
ghostscript-gtk-9.54.0-9.amzn2.0.13.x86_64
ghostscript-cups-9.54.0-9.amzn2.0.13.x86_64
ghostscript-debuginfo-9.54.0-9.amzn2.0.13.x86_64