CVE-2023-38560 (GCVE-0-2023-38560)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2023-08-01 16:49
Modified
2025-10-09 23:41
Severity ?
5.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE
  • CWE-190 - Integer Overflow or Wraparound
Summary
An integer overflow flaw was found in pcl/pl/plfont.c:418 in pl_glyph_name in ghostscript. This issue may allow a local attacker to cause a denial of service via transforming a crafted PCL file to PDF format.
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Impacted products
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Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6     cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6
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