Critical severity9.8NVD Advisory· Published Mar 31, 2023· Updated Jun 17, 2026
CVE-2023-28879
CVE-2023-28879
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.
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Affected products
37(expand)+ 1 more
- (no CPE)
- (no CPE)range: <=10.01.0
- osv-coords35 versionspkg:rpm/almalinux/ghostscriptpkg:rpm/almalinux/ghostscript-docpkg:rpm/almalinux/ghostscript-tools-dvipdfpkg:rpm/almalinux/ghostscript-tools-fontspkg:rpm/almalinux/ghostscript-tools-printingpkg:rpm/almalinux/ghostscript-x11pkg:rpm/almalinux/libgspkg:rpm/almalinux/libgs-develpkg:rpm/opensuse/ghostscript&distro=openSUSE%20Leap%2015.4pkg:rpm/opensuse/ghostscript&distro=openSUSE%20Tumbleweedpkg:rpm/suse/ghostscript&distro=SUSE%20Enterprise%20Storage%207pkg:rpm/suse/ghostscript&distro=SUSE%20Enterprise%20Storage%207.1pkg:rpm/suse/ghostscript&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20High%20Performance%20Computing%2015%20SP1-LTSSpkg:rpm/suse/ghostscript&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20High%20Performance%20Computing%2015%20SP2-LTSSpkg:rpm/suse/ghostscript&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20High%20Performance%20Computing%2015%20SP3-ESPOSpkg:rpm/suse/ghostscript&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20High%20Performance%20Computing%2015%20SP3-LTSSpkg:rpm/suse/ghostscript&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Module%20for%20Basesystem%2015%20SP4pkg:rpm/suse/ghostscript&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Real%20Time%2015%20SP3pkg:rpm/suse/ghostscript&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2012%20SP2-BCLpkg:rpm/suse/ghostscript&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2012%20SP4-ESPOSpkg:rpm/suse/ghostscript&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2012%20SP4-LTSSpkg:rpm/suse/ghostscript&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2012%20SP5pkg:rpm/suse/ghostscript&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2015%20SP1-LTSSpkg:rpm/suse/ghostscript&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2015%20SP2-LTSSpkg:rpm/suse/ghostscript&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2015%20SP3-LTSSpkg:rpm/suse/ghostscript&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%20for%20SAP%20Applications%2012%20SP4pkg:rpm/suse/ghostscript&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%20for%20SAP%20Applications%2012%20SP5pkg:rpm/suse/ghostscript&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%20for%20SAP%20Applications%2015%20SP1pkg:rpm/suse/ghostscript&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%20for%20SAP%20Applications%2015%20SP2pkg:rpm/suse/ghostscript&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%20for%20SAP%20Applications%2015%20SP3pkg:rpm/suse/ghostscript&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Software%20Development%20Kit%2012%20SP5pkg:rpm/suse/ghostscript&distro=SUSE%20Manager%20Proxy%204.2pkg:rpm/suse/ghostscript&distro=SUSE%20Manager%20Server%204.2pkg:rpm/suse/ghostscript&distro=SUSE%20OpenStack%20Cloud%209pkg:rpm/suse/ghostscript&distro=SUSE%20OpenStack%20Cloud%20Crowbar%209
< 9.54.0-13.el9+ 34 more
- (no CPE)range: < 9.54.0-13.el9
- (no CPE)range: < 9.54.0-13.el9
- (no CPE)range: < 9.54.0-13.el9
- (no CPE)range: < 9.54.0-13.el9
- (no CPE)range: < 9.54.0-13.el9
- (no CPE)range: < 9.54.0-13.el9
- (no CPE)range: < 9.54.0-13.el9
- (no CPE)range: < 9.54.0-13.el9
- (no CPE)range: < 9.52-150000.164.1
- (no CPE)range: < 9.56.1-2.1
- (no CPE)range: < 9.52-150000.164.1
- (no CPE)range: < 9.52-150000.164.1
- (no CPE)range: < 9.52-150000.164.1
- (no CPE)range: < 9.52-150000.164.1
- (no CPE)range: < 9.52-150000.164.1
- (no CPE)range: < 9.52-150000.164.1
- (no CPE)range: < 9.52-150000.164.1
- (no CPE)range: < 9.52-150000.164.1
- (no CPE)range: < 9.52-23.51.1
- (no CPE)range: < 9.52-23.51.1
- (no CPE)range: < 9.52-23.51.1
- (no CPE)range: < 9.52-23.51.1
- (no CPE)range: < 9.52-150000.164.1
- (no CPE)range: < 9.52-150000.164.1
- (no CPE)range: < 9.52-150000.164.1
- (no CPE)range: < 9.52-23.51.1
- (no CPE)range: < 9.52-23.51.1
- (no CPE)range: < 9.52-150000.164.1
- (no CPE)range: < 9.52-150000.164.1
- (no CPE)range: < 9.52-150000.164.1
- (no CPE)range: < 9.52-23.51.1
- (no CPE)range: < 9.52-150000.164.1
- (no CPE)range: < 9.52-150000.164.1
- (no CPE)range: < 9.52-23.51.1
- (no CPE)range: < 9.52-23.51.1
Patches
Vulnerability mechanics
References
10- bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cginvdExploitVendor Advisory
- lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/04/msg00003.htmlnvdMailing ListThird Party Advisory
- www.debian.org/security/2023/dsa-5383nvdThird Party Advisory
- ghostscript.readthedocs.io/en/latest/News.htmlnvdRelease Notes
- www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/04/12/4nvd
- git.ghostscript.comnvd
- lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/CI6UCKM3XMK7PYNIRGAVDJ5VKN6XYZOE/nvd
- lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/DHJX62KSRIOBZA6FKONMJP7MEFY7LTH2/nvd
- lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/MADLP3GWJFLLFVNZGEDNPMDQR6CCXAHN/nvd
- security.gentoo.org/glsa/202309-03nvd
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