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ubuntu-cve-2023-38560

Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu

Published

2023-08-01 17:15

Modified

2026-04-22 07:45

Summary

Details

An integer overflow flaw was found in pcl/pl/plfont.c:418 in pl_glyph_name in ghostscript. This issue may allow a local attacker to cause a denial of service via transforming a crafted PCL file to PDF format.

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

N/A (UNKNOWN)


                    
                      negligible

References

URL

Type

	https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2023-38560	REPORT
	https://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git;a=com…	REPORT
	https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-38560	REPORT
	https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-38560	REPORT

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CVE-2023-38560 (GCVE-0-2023-38560)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2023-08-01 16:49 – Updated: 2025-11-20 17:41

Title

Ghostscript: integer overflow in pcl/pl/plfont.c:418 in pl_glyph_name

Summary

Severity

5.5 (Medium)


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

SSVC

Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial

CISA Coordinator (v2.0.3)

CWE

CWE-190 - Integer Overflow or Wraparound

Assigner

redhat

References

4 references

URL	Tags
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-38560	vdb-entryx_refsource_REDHAT
https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=706898
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2224368	issue-trackingx_refsource_REDHAT
https://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git;a=com…

Impacted products

4 products

Vendor	Product	Version
Red Hat	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6	cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6
Red Hat	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7	cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7
Red Hat	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8	cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8
Red Hat	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9	cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9

Date Public

2023-07-17 00:00

Credits

Red Hat would like to thank fullwaywang (Tencent) for reporting this issue.

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Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu

CVE-2023-38560 (GCVE-0-2023-38560)

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