Use After Free Affecting ghostscript package, versions <9.53.3~dfsg-7+deb11u2


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.11% (45th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN11-GHOSTSCRIPT-2329012
  • published1 Jan 2022
  • disclosed1 Jan 2022

Introduced: 1 Jan 2022

CVE-2021-45944  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-416  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:11 ghostscript to version 9.53.3~dfsg-7+deb11u2 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream ghostscript package and not the ghostscript package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:11 relevant fixed versions and status.

Ghostscript GhostPDL 9.50 through 9.53.3 has a use-after-free in sampled_data_sample (called from sampled_data_continue and interp).

CVSS Scores

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