Mageia: 2023-0260 Moderate: Ghostscript Denial of Service Vulnerability
mageia
September 11, 2023
Ghostscript through 10.01.2 mishandles permission validation for pipe devices (with the %pipe% prefix or the | pipe character prefix)
Summary
Ghostscript through 10.01.2 mishandles permission validation for pipe
devices (with the %pipe% prefix or the | pipe character prefix).
(CVE-2023-36664)
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. (CVE-2023-38559)
References
- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=32237
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/2023/msg00138.html
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6213-1
- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=32070
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6297-1
- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-36664
- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-38559
Resolution
SRPMS
- 8/core/ghostscript-9.53.3-2.6.mga8
- 9/core/ghostscript-10.00.0-6.2.mga9
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Publication date: 11 Sep 2023
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2023-0260.html
Type: security
CVE: CVE-2023-36664,
CVE-2023-38559
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