ALSA-2023:7053

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    ALSA-2023:7053

    Published: 14 Nov 2023Last Modified: 4 Feb 2026

    Summary: Moderate: ghostscript security and bug fix update

    Details: The Ghostscript suite contains utilities for rendering PostScript and PDF documents. Ghostscript translates PostScript code to common bitmap formats so that the code can be displayed or printed. Security Fix(es): * ghostscript: buffer overflow in base/sbcp.c leading to data corruption (CVE-2023-28879) * ghostscript: Out-of-bound read in base/gdevdevn.c:1973 in devn_pcx_write_rle could result in DoS (CVE-2023-38559) * ghostscript: Incomplete fix for CVE-2020-16305 (CVE-2023-4042) For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section. Additional Changes: For detailed information on changes in this release, see the AlmaLinux Release Notes linked from the References section.

    References: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:7053, https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-28879, https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-38559, https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-4042, https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2184585, https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2224367, https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2228151, https://errata.almalinux.org/8/ALSA-2023-7053.html

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: ghostscript

    Purl: pkg:rpm/almalinux/ghostscript

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -9.27-11.el8

    Affected versions

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
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    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
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