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ALPINE-CVE-2023-28879
ALPINE-CVE-2023-28879
PUBLISHED
CVSS 9.800000190734863 CRITICAL
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.
Risk Scores
CVSS v3.1
9.800000190734863
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Affected Products
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
| Alpine:v3.14 | ghostscript | 9.22-r0, 9.21-r3, 9.21-r2 |
| Alpine:v3.16 | ghostscript | 9.19-r1, 9.20-r0, 9.20-r1 |
| Alpine:v3.17 | ghostscript | 9.27-r1, 0, 10.0.0-r0 |
| Alpine:v3.15 | ghostscript | 8.64-r0, 9.55.0-r0, 9.54.0-r1 |
Timeline
- Mar 31, 2023 CVE Published
- Nov 19, 2025 CVE Updated
- Apr 30, 2026 Distribution Patch