Advisories » MGASA-2023-0260

Updated ghostscript packages fix security vulnerability

Publication date: 11 Sep 2023
Modification date: 11 Sep 2023
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases : 8 , 9
CVE: CVE-2023-36664 , CVE-2023-38559

Description

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://www.debian.org/security/2023/dsa-5446
• 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://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2023-36664
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2023-38559

SRPMS

9/core

• ghostscript-10.00.0-6.2.mga9

8/core

• ghostscript-9.53.3-2.6.mga8