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Artifex Ghostscript: (CVE-2023-28879) Buffer Overflow in s_xBCPE_process

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Artifex Ghostscript: (CVE-2023-28879) Buffer Overflow in s_xBCPE_process

Severity
10
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
03/31/2023
Created
05/31/2023
Added
05/25/2023
Modified
01/28/2025

Description

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.

Solution(s)

  • ghostscript-upgrade-10_01_1

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