CVEvulnerability
CVE-2023-38559
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2023-08-01
- Last modified
- 2026-06-23
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-120, CWE-125
Description
A buffer overflow flaw was found in base/gdevdevn.c:1973 in devn_pcx_write_rle() in ghostscript. This issue may allow a local attacker to cause a denial of service via outputting a crafted PDF file for a DEVN device with gs.
Affected configurations
• artifex ghostscript (< 10.02.0)
• redhat enterprise linux 8.0
• redhat enterprise linux 9.0
• fedoraproject fedora 37
• fedoraproject fedora 38
• debian debian linux 10.0
Related
References
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:6544 Third Party Advisory
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:7053 Third Party Advisory
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-38559 Third Party Advisory
- https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=706897 Permissions Required
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2224367 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git;a=commitdiff;h=d81b82c70bc1 Mailing List, Patch
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:6544 Third Party Advisory
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:7053 Third Party Advisory
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-38559 Third Party Advisory
- https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=706897 Permissions Required
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2224367 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git;a=commitdiff;h=d81b82c70bc1 Mailing List, Patch
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/08/msg00006.html lists.debian.org
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/GBV6BTUREXM6DB3OGHGLMWGAZ3I45TXE/ lists.fedoraproject.org
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/QH7ERAYSSXEYDWWY7LOV7CA5MIDZN3Z6/ lists.fedoraproject.org