CVEvulnerability
CVE-2015-3228
6.8 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2015-08-11
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 6.8 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-189
Description
Integer overflow in the gs_heap_alloc_bytes function in base/gsmalloc.c in Ghostscript 9.15 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a crafted Postscript (ps) file, as demonstrated by using the ps2pdf command, which triggers an out-of-bounds read or write.
Affected configurations
• artifex afpl ghostscript (<= 9.15)
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
References
- http://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=696041 bugs.ghostscript.com
- http://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=696070 bugs.ghostscript.com
- http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=0c0b0859 git.ghostscript.com
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/07/23/14 openwall.com
- http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3326 www.debian.org
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinjul2016-3090568.html www.oracle.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/76017 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1033149 www.securitytracker.com
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2697-1 www.ubuntu.com
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1232805 bugzilla.redhat.com
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201612-33 security.gentoo.org
- http://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=696041 bugs.ghostscript.com
- http://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=696070 bugs.ghostscript.com
- http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=0c0b0859 git.ghostscript.com
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/07/23/14 openwall.com
- http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3326 www.debian.org
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinjul2016-3090568.html www.oracle.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/76017 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1033149 www.securitytracker.com
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2697-1 www.ubuntu.com
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1232805 bugzilla.redhat.com
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201612-33 security.gentoo.org