Out-of-bounds Write Affecting ghostscript-tools-fonts package, versions *
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0.1% (44th
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-RHEL8-GHOSTSCRIPTTOOLSFONTS-2391541
- published 2 Feb 2022
- disclosed 1 Jan 2022
Introduced: 1 Jan 2022
CVE-2021-45949 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
There is no fixed version for RHEL:8 ghostscript-tools-fonts.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream ghostscript-tools-fonts package and not the ghostscript-tools-fonts package as distributed by RHEL.
See How to fix? for RHEL:8 relevant fixed versions and status.
Ghostscript GhostPDL 9.50 through 9.54.0 has a heap-based buffer overflow in sampled_data_finish (called from sampled_data_continue and interp).
References
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-45949
- https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=34675
- https://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git;a=commit;h=2a3129365d3bc0d4a41f107ef175920d1505d1f7
- https://github.com/google/oss-fuzz-vulns/blob/main/vulns/ghostscript/OSV-2021-803.yaml
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/01/msg00006.html
- https://www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5038
- https://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=2a3129365d3bc0d4a41f107ef175920d1505d1f7
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