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ghsa-hj8r-56hg-7wg8

Vulnerability from github

Published

2023-08-01 18:30

Modified

2024-04-04 06:28

Severity ?

5.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Details

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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  "published": "2023-08-01T18:30:27Z",
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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.

References

URL

Tags

	https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-38560	vdb-entry, x_refsource_REDHAT
	https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=706898
	https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2224368	issue-tracking, x_refsource_REDHAT
	https://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git;a=commitdiff;h=b7eb1d0174c

Impacted products

Vendor

Product

Version

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 8	cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8
	Red Hat	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9	cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9

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