CVE-2023-28879

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  3. CVE-2023-28879
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.

9.8 /10

CVSS v3.0 : CRITICAL

V3 Legend

Vector :

Exploitability : 3.9 / Impact : 5.9

Attack Vector NETWORK

Attack Complexity LOW

Privileges Required NONE

User Interaction NONE

Confidentiality Impact HIGH

Integrity Impact HIGH

Availability Impact HIGH

Scope UNCHANGED

References
Link Resource
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/04/12/4
https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=706494 Exploit Vendor Advisory
https://ghostscript.readthedocs.io/en/latest/News.html Release Notes
https://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=37ed5022cecd584de868933b5b60da2e995b3179
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/04/msg00003.html Mailing List Third Party Advisory
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/CI6UCKM3XMK7PYNIRGAVDJ5VKN6XYZOE/
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://www.debian.org/security/2023/dsa-5383 Third Party Advisory
https://www.debian.org/security/2023/dsa-5383 Third Party Advisory
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202309-03
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/MADLP3GWJFLLFVNZGEDNPMDQR6CCXAHN/
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/CI6UCKM3XMK7PYNIRGAVDJ5VKN6XYZOE/
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/04/msg00003.html Mailing List Third Party Advisory
https://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=37ed5022cecd584de868933b5b60da2e995b3179
https://ghostscript.readthedocs.io/en/latest/News.html Release Notes
https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=706494 Exploit Vendor Advisory
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/04/12/4
Configurations

Configuration 1 (hide)

cpe:2.3:a:artifex:ghostscript:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Configuration 2 (hide)

OR cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:10.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:11.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
History

14 Feb 2025, 20:15

Type Values Removed Values Added
References (MISC) https://ghostscript.readthedocs.io/en/latest/News.html - Release Notes () https://ghostscript.readthedocs.io/en/latest/News.html - Release Notes
References (MLIST) https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/04/msg00003.html - Mailing List, Third Party Advisory () https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/04/msg00003.html - Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
References (DEBIAN) https://www.debian.org/security/2023/dsa-5383 - Third Party Advisory () https://www.debian.org/security/2023/dsa-5383 - Third Party Advisory
References (MISC) https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=706494 - Exploit, Vendor Advisory () https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=706494 - Exploit, Vendor Advisory
References (MLIST) http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/04/12/4 - () http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/04/12/4 -
References (GENTOO) https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202309-03 - () https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202309-03 -

07 Nov 2023, 04:10

Type Values Removed Values Added
References
  • {'url': 'https://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git;a=commit;h=37ed5022cecd584de868933b5b60da2e995b3179', 'name': 'https://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git;a=commit;h=37ed5022cecd584de868933b5b60da2e995b3179', 'tags': ['Patch'], 'refsource': 'MISC'}
  • {'url': 'https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/CI6UCKM3XMK7PYNIRGAVDJ5VKN6XYZOE/', 'name': 'FEDORA-2023-f51bc947bb', 'tags': [], 'refsource': 'FEDORA'}
  • {'url': 'https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/MADLP3GWJFLLFVNZGEDNPMDQR6CCXAHN/', 'name': 'FEDORA-2023-366850fc87', 'tags': [], 'refsource': 'FEDORA'}
  • {'url': 'https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/DHJX62KSRIOBZA6FKONMJP7MEFY7LTH2/', 'name': 'FEDORA-2023-fbf86d8916', 'tags': [], 'refsource': 'FEDORA'}
  • () https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/CI6UCKM3XMK7PYNIRGAVDJ5VKN6XYZOE/ -
  • () https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/MADLP3GWJFLLFVNZGEDNPMDQR6CCXAHN/ -
  • (GENTOO) https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202309-03 -
  • () https://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=37ed5022cecd584de868933b5b60da2e995b3179 -
  • () https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/DHJX62KSRIOBZA6FKONMJP7MEFY7LTH2/ -

15 Apr 2023, 04:16

Type Values Removed Values Added
References
  • (FEDORA) https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/MADLP3GWJFLLFVNZGEDNPMDQR6CCXAHN/ -
  • (FEDORA) https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/DHJX62KSRIOBZA6FKONMJP7MEFY7LTH2/ -

12 Apr 2023, 21:15

Type Values Removed Values Added
References
  • (MLIST) http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/04/12/4 -

12 Apr 2023, 03:15

Type Values Removed Values Added
References
  • (FEDORA) https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/CI6UCKM3XMK7PYNIRGAVDJ5VKN6XYZOE/ -

08 Apr 2023, 02:24

Type Values Removed Values Added
References (DEBIAN) https://www.debian.org/security/2023/dsa-5383 - (DEBIAN) https://www.debian.org/security/2023/dsa-5383 - Third Party Advisory
References (MLIST) https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/04/msg00003.html - (MLIST) https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/04/msg00003.html - Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
References (MISC) https://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git;a=commit;h=37ed5022cecd584de868933b5b60da2e995b3179 - (MISC) https://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git;a=commit;h=37ed5022cecd584de868933b5b60da2e995b3179 - Patch
References (MISC) https://ghostscript.readthedocs.io/en/latest/News.html - (MISC) https://ghostscript.readthedocs.io/en/latest/News.html - Release Notes
References (MISC) https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=706494 - (MISC) https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=706494 - Exploit, Vendor Advisory
CVSS v2 : unknown
v3 : unknown 		v2 : unknown
v3 : 9.8
First Time Debian debian Linux
Artifex
Artifex ghostscript
Debian
CWE CWE-787
CPE cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:10.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:artifex:ghostscript:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:11.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

06 Apr 2023, 04:16

Type Values Removed Values Added
References
  • (DEBIAN) https://www.debian.org/security/2023/dsa-5383 -

04 Apr 2023, 21:15

Type Values Removed Values Added
References
  • (MLIST) https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/04/msg00003.html -
Information

Published : 2023-03-31 17:15

Updated : 2025-02-14 20:15

NVD link : CVE-2023-28879

Mitre link : CVE-2023-28879

JSON object : View

Products Affected

artifex

  • ghostscript

debian

  • debian_linux
CWE
CWE-787

Out-of-bounds Write