CVE-2023-28879

CVE Details

Release Date:

2023-03-31

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.

See more information about CVE-2023-28879 from MITRE CVE dictionary and NIST NVD

CVSS v3.0 metrics

NOTE: The following CVSS v3.0 metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.

Base Score:	8.4	Base Metrics:	AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Access Vector:	Local network	Attack Complexity:	Low
Privileges Required:	None	User Interaction:	None
Scope:	Unchanged	Confidentiality Impact:	High
Integrity Impact:	High	Availability Impact:	High

Errata information

Platform	Errata	Release Date
Oracle Linux version 8 (ghostscript)	ELSA-2023-7053	2023-11-17
Oracle Linux version 9 (ghostscript)	ELSA-2023-6544	2023-11-11

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