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Out-of-bounds Write The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package ghostscript  (opens in a new tab)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL9-GHOSTSCRIPT-11464470
  • published5 Aug 2025
  • disclosed31 Mar 2023
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Introduced: 31 Mar 2023

CVE-2023-28879  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-787  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Red Hat security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for RHEL:9.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream ghostscript package and not the ghostscript package as distributed by RHEL.

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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