Integer Overflow or Wraparound Affecting ghostscript package, versions [0,]


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.08% (38th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-GHOSTSCRIPT-5815315
  • published2 Aug 2023
  • disclosed17 Jul 2023
  • creditfullwaywang

Introduced: 17 Jul 2023

CVE-2023-38560  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-190  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

A fix was pushed into the master branch but not yet published.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Integer Overflow or Wraparound in pcl/pl/plfont.c:418 in pl_glyph_name which allows a local attacker to cause a denial of service via a crafted PCL file by transforming it to PDF format.

CVSS Scores

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