Amazon Linux AMI update for ghostscript

1) Type confusion

EUVDB-ID: #VU6546

Risk: Critical

CVSSv4.0: 9.3 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:A/U:Red]

CVE-ID: CVE-2017-8291

CWE-ID: CWE-704 - Type conversion

Exploit availability: Yes

Description

The vulnerability allows a remote unauthenticated attacker to execute arbitrary commands on a targeted system.

The weakness exists due to type confusion error when processing user-supplied parameters passed to the .rsdparams and .eqproc functions in ghostscript. A remote attacker can submit a specially crafted .eps document, execute code in the context of the ghostscript process and bypass -dSAFER protection.

Successful exploitation of the vulnerability may result in system compromise.

Note: this vulnerability is being exploited in the wild.

Mitigation

Update the affected packages.

i686:
    ghostscript-8.70-23.25.amzn1.i686
    ghostscript-debuginfo-8.70-23.25.amzn1.i686
    ghostscript-doc-8.70-23.25.amzn1.i686
    ghostscript-devel-8.70-23.25.amzn1.i686

src:
    ghostscript-8.70-23.25.amzn1.src

x86_64:
    ghostscript-doc-8.70-23.25.amzn1.x86_64
    ghostscript-devel-8.70-23.25.amzn1.x86_64
    ghostscript-debuginfo-8.70-23.25.amzn1.x86_64
    ghostscript-8.70-23.25.amzn1.x86_64

Vulnerable software versions

Amazon Linux AMI: All versions

CPE2.3

• cpe:2.3:o:amazon_web_services:amazon_linux_ami:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

External links

https://alas.aws.amazon.com/ALAS-2017-837.html

Q & A

Can this vulnerability be exploited remotely?

Yes. This vulnerability can be exploited by a remote non-authenticated attacker via the Internet.

Is there known malware, which exploits this vulnerability?

Yes. This vulnerability is being exploited in the wild.