ALSA-2023:6544

ALSA-2023:6544 · Moderate: ghostscript security and bug fix update

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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) 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.

Fix available

Published

2023-11-07T00:00:00Z

Updated

2026-02-04T03:38:31.974780Z

Stack: system

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