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Ubuntu: USN-6297-1 (CVE-2023-38559): Ghostscript vulnerability

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Severity

CVSS

(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)

Published

Aug 1, 2023

Added

Aug 18, 2023

Modified

Apr 16, 2026

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.

Solutions

ubuntu-pro-upgrade-ghostscriptubuntu-pro-upgrade-libgs9ubuntu-upgrade-ghostscriptubuntu-upgrade-libgs10ubuntu-upgrade-libgs9

References

CVE-2023-38559
https://attackerkb.com/topics/CVE-2023-38559
CWE-120
CWE-125
EUVD-EUVD-2023-42358
UBUNTU-USN-6297-1
https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2023-42358

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