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DEBIAN-CVE-2023-28879

DEBIAN-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 3.1
9.800000190734863
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected Products

VendorProductVersions
Debian:14ghostscript0, 0, 0
Debian:11ghostscript0, 9.53.3~dfsg-7+deb11u1, 9.53.3~dfsg-7+deb11u2
Debian:12ghostscript0, 0, 0
Debian:13ghostscript0, 0, 0

Timeline

  • Mar 31, 2023 CVE Published
  • Apr 28, 2026 CVE Updated
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