OS Command Injection The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package ghostscript-tools-dvipdf (opens in a new tab)
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Test your applications- Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL8-GHOSTSCRIPTTOOLSDVIPDF-5741226
- published27 Jun 2023
- disclosed27 Jun 2023
Introduced: 27 Jun 2023
CVE-2023-36664 (opens in a new tab)Amendment
The Red Hat security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for RHEL:8.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream ghostscript-tools-dvipdf package and not the ghostscript-tools-dvipdf package as distributed by RHEL.
Artifex Ghostscript before 10.01.2 mishandles permission validation for pipe devices (with the %pipe% prefix or the | pipe character prefix).
References
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-36664
- https://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=0974e4f2ac0005d3731e0b5c13ebc7e965540f4d
- https://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=505eab7782b429017eb434b2b95120855f2b0e3c
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/2ICXN5VPF3WJCYKMPSYER5KHTPJXSTJZ/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/5EWMEK2UPCUU3ZLL7VASE5CEHDQY4VKV/
- https://artifex.com/blog/security-vulnerability-fixed-in-ghostscript-10.01.2
- https://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git;a=commit;h=0974e4f2ac0005d3731e0b5c13ebc7e965540f4d
- https://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git;a=commit;h=505eab7782b429017eb434b2b95120855f2b0e3c
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/2ICXN5VPF3WJCYKMPSYER5KHTPJXSTJZ/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/5EWMEK2UPCUU3ZLL7VASE5CEHDQY4VKV/
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2023-36664
- https://www.kroll.com/en/publications/cyber/ghostscript-cve-2023-36664-remote-code-execution-vulnerability
- https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=706761
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202309-03
- https://www.debian.org/security/2023/dsa-5446
- https://github.com/jakabakos/CVE-2023-36664-Ghostscript-command-injection