Use After Free Affecting libgs package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
medium

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.11% (46th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL7-LIBGS-6115322
  • published11 Dec 2023
  • disclosed6 Dec 2023

Introduced: 6 Dec 2023

CVE-2023-46751  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-416  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for RHEL:7 libgs.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream libgs package and not the libgs package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:7 relevant fixed versions and status.

An issue was discovered in the function gdev_prn_open_printer_seekable() in Artifex Ghostscript through 10.02.0 allows remote attackers to crash the application via a dangling pointer.

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