Use After Free Affecting ghostscript-x11 package, versions *
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-RHEL8-GHOSTSCRIPTX11-2391703
- published 2 Feb 2022
- disclosed 1 Jan 2022
Introduced: 1 Jan 2022
CVE-2021-45944 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
There is no fixed version for RHEL:8 ghostscript-x11.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream ghostscript-x11 package and not the ghostscript-x11 package as distributed by RHEL.
See How to fix? for RHEL:8 relevant fixed versions and status.
Ghostscript GhostPDL 9.50 through 9.53.3 has a use-after-free in sampled_data_sample (called from sampled_data_continue and interp).
References
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-45944
- https://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git;a=commit;h=7861fcad13c497728189feafb41cd57b5b50ea25
- https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=29903
- https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=30715
- https://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=7861fcad13c497728189feafb41cd57b5b50ea25
- https://github.com/google/oss-fuzz-vulns/blob/main/vulns/ghostscript/OSV-2021-237.yaml
- https://github.com/google/oss-fuzz-vulns/issues/16
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/01/msg00006.html
- https://www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5038
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