fkie_cve-2023-38559
Vulnerability from fkie_nvd
Published
2023-08-01 17:15
Modified
2024-11-21 08:13
Severity ?
5.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
5.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Summary
A buffer overflow flaw was found in base/gdevdevn.c:1973 in devn_pcx_write_rle() in ghostscript. This issue may allow a local attacker to cause a denial of service via outputting a crafted PDF file for a DEVN device with gs.
References
secalert@redhat.comhttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:6544Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:7053Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-38559Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=706897Permissions Required
secalert@redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2224367Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git;a=commitdiff;h=d81b82c70bc1Mailing List, Patch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:6544Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:7053Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-38559Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=706897Permissions Required
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2224367Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git;a=commitdiff;h=d81b82c70bc1Mailing List, Patch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/08/msg00006.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/GBV6BTUREXM6DB3OGHGLMWGAZ3I45TXE/
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/QH7ERAYSSXEYDWWY7LOV7CA5MIDZN3Z6/
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
artifex ghostscript *
redhat enterprise_linux 8.0
redhat enterprise_linux 9.0
fedoraproject fedora 37
fedoraproject fedora 38
debian debian_linux 10.0


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