RLSA-2023:5459

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    RLSA-2023:5459

    Published: 6 Oct 2023Last Modified: 4 Feb 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2023-36664

    Summary: Important: ghostscript security 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: vulnerable to OS command injection due to mishandles permission validation for pipe devices (CVE-2023-36664) 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.

    References: https://errata.rockylinux.org/RLSA-2023:5459, https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2217798

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: ghostscript

    Purl: pkg:rpm/rocky-linux/ghostscript?distro=rocky-linux-9&epoch=0

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -0:9.54.0-10.el9_2

    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
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
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