Out-of-Bounds Affecting ghostscript package, versions <8.71~dfsg-2


Severity

Recommended
low

Based on Debian security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
4.02% (92nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN11-GHOSTSCRIPT-524292
  • published4 Dec 2009
  • disclosed4 Dec 2009

Introduced: 4 Dec 2009

CVE-2009-3560  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-119  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:11 ghostscript to version 8.71~dfsg-2 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.

The big2_toUtf8 function in lib/xmltok.c in libexpat in Expat 2.0.1, as used in the XML-Twig module for Perl, allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via an XML document with malformed UTF-8 sequences that trigger a buffer over-read, related to the doProlog function in lib/xmlparse.c, a different vulnerability than CVE-2009-2625 and CVE-2009-3720.

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