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Buffer Overflow Affecting ghostscript-x11 package, versions *

Severity

 Recommended
medium

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-RHEL8-GHOSTSCRIPTX11-8380897
  • published 14 Nov 2024
  • disclosed 10 Nov 2024
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Introduced: 10 Nov 2024

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How 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.

An issue was discovered in pdf/pdf_xref.c in Artifex Ghostscript before 10.04.0. There is a buffer overflow during handling of a PDF XRef stream (related to W array values).

CVSS Scores

version 3.1
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NVD

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

7.8 high