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
CVSS v3 Base Score
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 |