CVE-2023-38559 (GCVE-0-2023-38559)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2023-08-01 16:49
Modified
2026-06-23 17:19
Severity ?
VLAI Severity ?
EPSS score ?
CWE
- CWE-125 - Out-of-bounds Read
Summary
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.
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| Red Hat | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 |
Unaffected: 0:9.27-11.el8 < * cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:8::crb cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:8::appstream |
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