Out-of-bounds Write Affecting ghostscript package, versions <0:9.54.0-13.el9


Severity

Recommended
medium

Based on Oracle Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
25.92% (96th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-ORACLE9-GHOSTSCRIPT-6066468
  • published17 Nov 2023
  • disclosed31 Mar 2023

Introduced: 31 Mar 2023

CVE-2023-28879  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-787  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Oracle:9 ghostscript to version 0:9.54.0-13.el9 or higher.
This issue was patched in ELSA-2023-6544.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream ghostscript package and not the ghostscript package as distributed by Oracle. See How to fix? for Oracle:9 relevant fixed versions and status.

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.

CVSS Base Scores

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