CVE-2023-28879

Public on 2023-03-31
Modified on 2024-02-10
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.
Severity
Important severity
Important
CVSS v3 Base Score
7.5
See breakdown

Affected Packages

Platform Package Release Date Advisory Status
Amazon Linux 1 ghostscript 2023-04-27 ALAS-2023-1734 Fixed
Amazon Linux 2 - Core ghostscript 2023-04-27 ALAS2-2023-2019 Fixed
Amazon Linux 2023 ghostscript 2023-04-27 ALAS2023-2023-162 Fixed

CVSS Scores

Score Type Score Vector
Amazon Linux CVSSv3 7.5 CVSSV3.1:AV:A/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD CVSSv3 9.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H