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Out-of-bounds Write Affecting ghostscript-doc package, versions <0:9.27-11.el8

Severity

 Recommended
medium

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS
    0.53% (78th percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-RHEL8-GHOSTSCRIPTDOC-5413825
  • published 5 Apr 2023
  • disclosed 31 Mar 2023
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Introduced: 31 Mar 2023

CVE-2023-28879 Open this link in a new tab
CWE-787 Open this link in a new tab

How to fix?

Upgrade RHEL:8 ghostscript-doc to version 0:9.27-11.el8 or higher.
This issue was patched in RHSA-2023:7053.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream ghostscript-doc package and not the ghostscript-doc package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:8 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.

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CVSS Scores

version 3.1
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NVD

9.8 critical
  • Attack Vector (AV)
    Network
  • Attack Complexity (AC)
    Low
  • Privileges Required (PR)
    None
  • User Interaction (UI)
    None
  • Scope (S)
    Unchanged
  • Confidentiality (C)
    High
  • Integrity (I)
    High
  • Availability (A)
    High
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Red Hat

8.4 high
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SUSE

7.8 high