CVE-2023-28879
CVE-2023-28879
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In Artifex Ghostscript through 10.01.0, there is a buffer overflow leading to potential corruption of data internal to the PostScript interpreter, in base/sbcp.c. This affects BCPEncode, BCPDecode, TBCPEncode, and TBCPDecode. If the write buffer is filled to one byte less than full, and one then tries to write an escaped character, two bytes are written.
CVSS 9.8 · Critical · EPSS 6.3% · Fix available
- Published
- Updated
Stack: system
Affected products and versions
n/a
- Versions
- n/a: Affected
No fix published
ghostscript Debian:12
- Affected ranges
- ECOSYSTEM: < 10.0.0~dfsg-11
Update to 10.0.0~dfsg-11
ghostscript Debian:13
- Affected ranges
- ECOSYSTEM: < 10.0.0~dfsg-11
Update to 10.0.0~dfsg-11
ghostscript Debian:14
- Affected ranges
- ECOSYSTEM: < 10.0.0~dfsg-11
Update to 10.0.0~dfsg-11
ghostscript Ubuntu:Pro:16.04:LTS
- Versions
- 9.16~dfsg~0-0ubuntu3
- 9.16~dfsg~0-0ubuntu4
- 9.18~dfsg~0-0ubuntu1
- 9.18~dfsg~0-0ubuntu2
- 9.18~dfsg~0-0ubuntu2.2
- 9.18~dfsg~0-0ubuntu2.3
- 9.18~dfsg~0-0ubuntu2.4
- 9.18~dfsg~0-0ubuntu2.6
- 9.18~dfsg~0-0ubuntu2.7
- 9.18~dfsg~0-0ubuntu2.8
- 9.18~dfsg~0-0ubuntu2.9
- 9.25~dfsg+1-0ubuntu0.16.04.1
- 9.25~dfsg+1-0ubuntu0.16.04.2
- 9.25~dfsg+1-0ubuntu0.16.04.3
- 9.26~dfsg+0-0ubuntu0.16.04.1
- 9.26~dfsg+0-0ubuntu0.16.04.3
- 9.26~dfsg+0-0ubuntu0.16.04.4
- 9.26~dfsg+0-0ubuntu0.16.04.5
- 9.26~dfsg+0-0ubuntu0.16.04.6
- 9.26~dfsg+0-0ubuntu0.16.04.7
- 9.26~dfsg+0-0ubuntu0.16.04.8
- 9.26~dfsg+0-0ubuntu0.16.04.9
- 9.26~dfsg+0-0ubuntu0.16.04.10
- 9.26~dfsg+0-0ubuntu0.16.04.11
- 9.26~dfsg+0-0ubuntu0.16.04.12
- 9.26~dfsg+0-0ubuntu0.16.04.13
- 9.26~dfsg+0-0ubuntu0.16.04.14
- 9.26~dfsg+0-0ubuntu0.16.04.14+esm1
- 9.26~dfsg+0-0ubuntu0.16.04.14+esm2
- 9.26~dfsg+0-0ubuntu0.16.04.14+esm3
- 9.26~dfsg+0-0ubuntu0.16.04.14+esm4
- Affected ranges
- ECOSYSTEM: < 9.26~dfsg+0-0ubuntu0.16.04.14+esm5
Update to 9.26~dfsg+0-0ubuntu0.16.04.14+esm5
ghostscript Ubuntu:18.04:LTS
- Versions
- 9.21~dfsg+1-0ubuntu3
- 9.22~dfsg+1-0ubuntu1
- 9.22~dfsg+1-0ubuntu1.1
- 9.22~dfsg+1-0ubuntu1.2
- 9.25~dfsg+1-0ubuntu0.18.04.1
- 9.25~dfsg+1-0ubuntu0.18.04.2
- 9.26~dfsg+0-0ubuntu0.18.04.1
- 9.26~dfsg+0-0ubuntu0.18.04.3
- 9.26~dfsg+0-0ubuntu0.18.04.4
- 9.26~dfsg+0-0ubuntu0.18.04.5
- 9.26~dfsg+0-0ubuntu0.18.04.6
- 9.26~dfsg+0-0ubuntu0.18.04.7
- 9.26~dfsg+0-0ubuntu0.18.04.8
- 9.26~dfsg+0-0ubuntu0.18.04.9
- 9.26~dfsg+0-0ubuntu0.18.04.10
- 9.26~dfsg+0-0ubuntu0.18.04.11
- 9.26~dfsg+0-0ubuntu0.18.04.12
- 9.26~dfsg+0-0ubuntu0.18.04.13
- 9.26~dfsg+0-0ubuntu0.18.04.14
- 9.26~dfsg+0-0ubuntu0.18.04.15
- 9.26~dfsg+0-0ubuntu0.18.04.16
- 9.26~dfsg+0-0ubuntu0.18.04.17
- Affected ranges
- ECOSYSTEM: < 9.26~dfsg+0-0ubuntu0.18.04.18
Update to 9.26~dfsg+0-0ubuntu0.18.04.18
ghostscript Ubuntu:20.04:LTS
- Versions
- 9.27~dfsg+0-0ubuntu3
- 9.27~dfsg+0-0ubuntu4
- 9.50~dfsg-5ubuntu1
- 9.50~dfsg-5ubuntu2
- 9.50~dfsg-5ubuntu3
- 9.50~dfsg-5ubuntu4
- 9.50~dfsg-5ubuntu4.1
- 9.50~dfsg-5ubuntu4.2
- 9.50~dfsg-5ubuntu4.3
- 9.50~dfsg-5ubuntu4.4
- 9.50~dfsg-5ubuntu4.5
- 9.50~dfsg-5ubuntu4.6
- Affected ranges
- ECOSYSTEM: < 9.50~dfsg-5ubuntu4.7
Update to 9.50~dfsg-5ubuntu4.7
ghostscript Ubuntu:22.04:LTS
- Versions
- 9.54.0~dfsg1-0ubuntu2
- 9.55.0~dfsg1-0ubuntu4
- 9.55.0~dfsg1-0ubuntu5
- 9.55.0~dfsg1-0ubuntu5.1
- Affected ranges
- ECOSYSTEM: < 9.55.0~dfsg1-0ubuntu5.2
Update to 9.55.0~dfsg1-0ubuntu5.2
Original sources
- https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=706494
- https://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=37ed5022cecd584de868933b5b60da2e995b3179
- https://ghostscript.readthedocs.io/en/latest/News.html
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/04/msg00003.html
- https://www.debian.org/security/2023/dsa-5383
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/CI6UCKM3XMK7PYNIRGAVDJ5VKN6XYZOE/
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/04/12/4
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/DHJX62KSRIOBZA6FKONMJP7MEFY7LTH2/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/MADLP3GWJFLLFVNZGEDNPMDQR6CCXAHN/
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202309-03
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-28879