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OESA-2022-1754 (CVE-2022-2085)

Vulnerability from osv_openeuler – Published: 2022-07-15 11:05 – Updated: 2026-08-06 11:05 – Source website

Summary

ghostscript security update

Details

Ghostscript is an interpreter for PostScript™ and Portable Document Format (PDF) files. Ghostscript consists of a PostScript interpreter layer, and a graphics library.

Security Fix(es):

A NULL pointer dereference vulnerability was found in Ghostscript, which occurs when it tries to render a large number of bits in memory. When allocating a buffer device, it relies on an init_device_procs defined for the device that uses it as a prototype that depends upon the number of bits per pixel. For bpp > 64, mem_x_device is used and does not have an init_device_procs defined. This flaw allows an attacker to parse a large number of bits (more than 64 bits per pixel), which triggers a NULL pointer dereference flaw, causing an application to crash.(CVE-2022-2085)

Severity

5.5 (Medium)


                    
                      CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

References

URL

Type

	https://www.openeuler.org/en/security/safety-bull…	ADVISORY
	https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-2085	ADVISORY

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          "ghostscript-tools-dvipdf-9.55.0-2.oe2203.aarch64.rpm",
          "ghostscript-devel-9.55.0-2.oe2203.aarch64.rpm",
          "ghostscript-debugsource-9.55.0-2.oe2203.aarch64.rpm",
          "ghostscript-debuginfo-9.55.0-2.oe2203.aarch64.rpm"
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    }
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CVE-2022-2085 (GCVE-0-2022-2085)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2022-06-16 00:00 – Updated: 2025-02-13 16:28

Summary

Severity

No CVSS data available.

CWE

CWE-476 - - NULL Pointer Dereference

Assigner

redhat redhat root Scorecard

References

6 references

URL	Tags
https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=704945
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2095261
http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Bh=ae…
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/pac…	vendor-advisory
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202211-11	vendor-advisory
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202309-03

Impacted products

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version
n/a	GhostScript	Affected: Affects in Ghostscript v9.55.0

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