CVE-2023-28879

CVSS V2 None CVSS V3 None
Description
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.
Overview
  • CVE ID
  • CVE-2023-28879
  • Assigner
  • cve@mitre.org
  • Vulnerability Status
  • Modified
  • Published Version
  • 2023-03-31T17:15:06
  • Last Modified Date
  • 2023-04-15T04:16:07
Weakness Enumerations
CWE URL
CWE-787 http://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/787.html
CPE Configuration (Product)
CPE Vulnerable Operator Version Start Version End
cpe:2.3:a:artifex:ghostscript:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR 10.01.0
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:10.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:11.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
References
Reference URL Reference Tags
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;a=commit;h=37ed5022cecd584de868933b5b60da2e995b3179 Patch
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/04/msg00003.html Mailing List Third Party Advisory
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/CI6UCKM3XMK7PYNIRGAVDJ5VKN6XYZOE/
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/DHJX62KSRIOBZA6FKONMJP7MEFY7LTH2/
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/MADLP3GWJFLLFVNZGEDNPMDQR6CCXAHN/
https://www.debian.org/security/2023/dsa-5383 Third Party Advisory
Sources
Source Name Source URL
NIST https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-28879
MITRE https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2023-28879
History
Created Old Value New Value Data Type Notes
2023-04-17 03:58:04 Added to TrackCVE
2023-04-17 03:58:07 Weakness Enumeration new