Out-of-bounds Write Affecting ghostscript package, versions <9.52-161.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.08% (37th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES151-GHOSTSCRIPT-3311979
  • published7 Feb 2023
  • disclosed31 Jan 2023

Introduced: 31 Jan 2023

CVE-2021-45949  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-787  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:15.1 ghostscript to version 9.52-161.1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream ghostscript package and not the ghostscript package as distributed by SLES. See How to fix? for SLES:15.1 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).

CVSS Scores

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