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RHSA-2023:7053

Vulnerability from csaf_opensuse - Published: 2023-11-14 00:00 - Updated: 2026-09-20 11:33

Summary

security update for ghostscript

Severity

Low

Notes

Title of the patch: security update for ghostscript

Description of the patch: This security update provides a functional equivalent of RHSA-2023:7053. The original Red Hat(R) advisory is available from the Red Hat web site at https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:7053.

Patchnames: RHSA-2023:7053

CVE-2023-28879

7.8 (High)


                
                  CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected products

Recommended 10 products

Product	Version	Remediation
Unresolved product id: SUSE Liberty Linux 8:ghostscript-0:9.27-11.el8.x86_64	—	Vendor Fix
Unresolved product id: SUSE Liberty Linux 8:ghostscript-doc-0:9.27-11.el8.noarch	—	Vendor Fix
Unresolved product id: SUSE Liberty Linux 8:ghostscript-tools-dvipdf-0:9.27-11.el8.x86_64	—	Vendor Fix
Unresolved product id: SUSE Liberty Linux 8:ghostscript-tools-fonts-0:9.27-11.el8.x86_64	—	Vendor Fix
Unresolved product id: SUSE Liberty Linux 8:ghostscript-tools-printing-0:9.27-11.el8.x86_64	—	Vendor Fix
Unresolved product id: SUSE Liberty Linux 8:ghostscript-x11-0:9.27-11.el8.x86_64	—	Vendor Fix
Unresolved product id: SUSE Liberty Linux 8:libgs-0:9.27-11.el8.i686	—	Vendor Fix
Unresolved product id: SUSE Liberty Linux 8:libgs-0:9.27-11.el8.x86_64	—	Vendor Fix
Unresolved product id: SUSE Liberty Linux 8:libgs-devel-0:9.27-11.el8.i686	—	Vendor Fix
Unresolved product id: SUSE Liberty Linux 8:libgs-devel-0:9.27-11.el8.x86_64	—	Vendor Fix

Threats

Impact important

CVE-2023-38559

3.3 (Low)


                
                  CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

Affected products

Recommended 10 products, the same list as for CVE-2023-28879

Threats

Impact moderate

CVE-2023-4042

5.5 (Medium)


                
                  CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected products

Recommended 10 products, the same list as for CVE-2023-28879

Threats

Impact moderate

References

14 references

URL	Category
https://www.suse.com/support/security/rating/	external
https://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/security/csaf/r…	self
https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-28879/	self
https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-38559/	self
https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-4042/	self
https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-28879	external
https://bugzilla.suse.com/1210062	external
https://bugzilla.suse.com/1210900	external
https://bugzilla.suse.com/1211514	external
https://bugzilla.suse.com/1213844	external
https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-38559	external
https://bugzilla.suse.com/1213637	external
https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-4042	external
https://bugzilla.suse.com/1214536	external

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CVE-2023-28879 (GCVE-0-2023-28879)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2023-03-31 00:00 – Updated: 2025-02-14 19:29

Summary

In Artifex Ghostscript through 10.01.0, there is a buffer overflow leading to potential corruption of data internal to the PostScript interpreter, in base/sbcp.c. This affects BCPEncode, BCPDecode, TBCPEncode, and TBCPDecode. If the write buffer is filled to one byte less than full, and one then tries to write an escaped character, two bytes are written.

Severity

9.8 (Critical)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

SSVC

Exploitation: poc Automatable: yes Technical Impact: total

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2025-02-14 19:29 UTC

CWE

n/a
CWE-787 - Out-of-bounds Write

Assigner

mitre mitre root

References

10 references

URL	Tags
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https://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Ba=c…
https://ghostscript.readthedocs.io/en/latest/News.html
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023…	mailing-list
https://www.debian.org/security/2023/dsa-5383	vendor-advisory
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https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/pac…	vendor-advisory
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/pac…	vendor-advisory
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202309-03	vendor-advisory

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CVE-2023-38559 (GCVE-0-2023-38559)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2023-08-01 16:49 – Updated: 2026-06-23 17:19

Title

Ghostscript: out-of-bound read in base/gdevdevn.c:1973 in devn_pcx_write_rle could result in dos

Summary

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.

Severity

5.5 (Medium)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

SSVC

Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2025-06-03 16:18 UTC

CWE

CWE-125 - Out-of-bounds Read

Assigner

redhat redhat root

References

9 references

URL	Tags
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https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:7053	vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-38559	vdb-entryx_refsource_REDHAT
https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=706897
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2224367	issue-trackingx_refsource_REDHAT
https://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git;a=com…
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023…	x_transferred
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Impacted products

5 products

Vendor	Product	Version
Red Hat	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8	Unaffected: 0:9.27-11.el8 , < * (rpm) cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:8::crb cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:8::appstream
Red Hat	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9	Unaffected: 0:9.54.0-13.el9 , < * (rpm) cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:9::crb cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:9::appstream
Red Hat	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6	cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6
Red Hat	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7	cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7
Red Hat	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8	cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8

Date Public

2023-07-17 00:00

Credits

Red Hat would like to thank fullwaywang (Tencent) for reporting this issue.

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CVE-2023-4042 (GCVE-0-2023-4042)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2023-08-23 12:19 – Updated: 2025-11-21 07:05

Title

Ghostscript: incomplete fix for cve-2020-16305

Summary

A flaw was found in ghostscript. The fix for CVE-2020-16305 in ghostscript was not included in RHSA-2021:1852-06 advisory as it was claimed to be. This issue only affects the ghostscript package as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.

Severity

5.5 (Medium)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

SSVC

Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2025-07-01 13:58 UTC

CWE

CWE-125 - Out-of-bounds Read

Assigner

redhat redhat root

References

4 references

URL	Tags
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https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-4042	vdb-entryx_refsource_REDHAT
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1870257
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2228151	issue-trackingx_refsource_REDHAT

Impacted products

5 products

Vendor	Product	Version
Red Hat	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8	Unaffected: 0:9.27-11.el8 , < * (rpm) cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:8::crb cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:8::appstream
Red Hat	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6	cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6
Red Hat	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7	cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7
Red Hat	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8	cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8
Red Hat	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9	cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9

Date Public

2023-08-23 00:00

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