CVE-2023-38560 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

An integer overflow flaw was found in pcl/pl/plfont.c:418 in pl_glyph_name in ghostscript. This issue may allow a local attacker to cause a denial of service via transforming a crafted PCL file to PDF format.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Local

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact High

User Interaction Required

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

Exploitation none

Automatable no

Technical Impact partial

Vendors	Products
Artifex	Ghostscript
Redhat	Enterprise Linux

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:artifex:ghostscript:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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References

Link	Providers
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-38560
https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=706898
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2224368
https://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git;a=commitdiff;h=b7eb1d0174c
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-38560
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-38560

History

Fri, 07 Feb 2025 05:15:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
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MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published: 2023-08-01T16:49:48.327Z

Updated: 2025-02-07T04:15:44.587Z

Reserved: 2023-07-20T14:53:37.544Z

Link: CVE-2023-38560

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-02T17:46:56.255Z

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2023-08-01T17:15:09.967

Modified: 2024-11-21T08:13:49.903

Link: CVE-2023-38560

Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2023-07-17T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2023-38560 - Bugzilla

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