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OESA-2023-1984 (CVE-2023-46751)

Vulnerability from osv_openeuler – Published: 2023-12-29 11:06 – Updated: 2026-08-06 11:06 – Source website

Summary

ghostscript security update

Details

Ghostscript is an interpreter for PostScript™ and Portable Document Format (PDF) files. Ghostscript consists of a PostScript interpreter layer, and a graphics library.

Security Fix(es):

An issue was discovered in the function gdev_prn_open_printer_seekable() in Artifex Ghostscript through 10.02.0 allows remote attackers to crash the application via a dangling pointer.(CVE-2023-46751)

Severity

7.5 (High)


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

References

URL

Type

	https://www.openeuler.org/en/security/safety-bull…	ADVISORY
	https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-46751	ADVISORY

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  "database_specific": {
    "severity": "High"
  },
  "details": "Ghostscript is an interpreter for PostScript\u2122 and Portable Document Format (PDF) files. Ghostscript consists of a PostScript interpreter layer, and a graphics library.\r\n\r\nSecurity Fix(es):\r\n\r\nAn issue was discovered in the function gdev_prn_open_printer_seekable() in Artifex Ghostscript through 10.02.0 allows remote attackers to crash the application via a dangling pointer.(CVE-2023-46751)",
  "id": "OESA-2023-1984",
  "modified": "2026-08-06T11:06:25Z",
  "published": "2023-12-29T11:06:25Z",
  "references": [
    {
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      "url": "https://www.openeuler.org/en/security/safety-bulletin/detail.html?id=openEuler-SA-2023-1984"
    },
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  "schema_version": "1.7.2",
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      "type": "CVSS_V3"
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  "summary": "ghostscript security update",
  "upstream": [
    "CVE-2023-46751"
  ]
}

CVE-2023-46751 (GCVE-0-2023-46751)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2023-12-06 00:00 – Updated: 2024-08-02 20:53

Summary

An issue was discovered in the function gdev_prn_open_printer_seekable() in Artifex Ghostscript through 10.02.0 allows remote attackers to crash the application via a dangling pointer.

Severity

No CVSS data available.

CWE

Assigner

mitre mitre root

References

4 references

URL	Tags
https://ghostscript.com/
https://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Ba=c…
https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=707264
https://www.debian.org/security/2023/dsa-5578	vendor-advisory

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