csaf_opensuse - opensuse-su-2024:12853-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:12853-1

Vulnerability from csaf_opensuse - Published: 2024-06-15 00:00 - Updated: 2024-06-15 00:00

Summary

ghostscript-9.56.1-2.1 on GA media

Notes

Title of the patch

ghostscript-9.56.1-2.1 on GA media

Description of the patch

These are all security issues fixed in the ghostscript-9.56.1-2.1 package on the GA media of openSUSE Tumbleweed.

Patchnames

openSUSE-Tumbleweed-2024-12853

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CVE-2023-28879 (GCVE-0-2023-28879)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2023-03-31 00:00 – Updated: 2025-02-14 19:29

Summary

In Artifex Ghostscript through 10.01.0, there is a buffer overflow leading to potential corruption of data internal to the PostScript interpreter, in base/sbcp.c. This affects BCPEncode, BCPDecode, TBCPEncode, and TBCPDecode. If the write buffer is filled to one byte less than full, and one then tries to write an escaped character, two bytes are written.

Severity ?

9.8 (Critical)


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

CWE

Assigner

mitre

References

URL

Tags

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	https://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Ba=c…
	https://ghostscript.readthedocs.io/en/latest/News.html
	https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023…	mailing-list
	https://www.debian.org/security/2023/dsa-5383	vendor-advisory
	https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/pac…	vendor-advisory
	http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/04/12/4	mailing-list
	https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/pac…	vendor-advisory
	https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/pac…	vendor-advisory
	https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202309-03	vendor-advisory

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Sightings

Author	Source	Type	Date

Nomenclature

Seen: The vulnerability was mentioned, discussed, or observed by the user.
Confirmed: The vulnerability has been validated from an analyst's perspective.
Published Proof of Concept: A public proof of concept is available for this vulnerability.
Exploited: The vulnerability was observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
Patched: The vulnerability was observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.

Detection rules are retrieved from Rulezet.

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OPENSUSE-SU-2024:12853-1

CVE-2023-28879 (GCVE-0-2023-28879)

Tags

Sightings

Nomenclature