CVE-2023-4042

Description

A flaw was found in ghostscript. The fix for CVE-2020-16305 in ghostscript was not included in RHSA-2021:1852-06 advisory as it was claimed to be. This issue only affects the ghostscript package as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.

Reserved 2023-08-01 | Published 2023-08-23 | Updated 2024-11-23 | Assigner redhat

Problem types

Out-of-bounds Read

Product status

Default status
affected

0:9.27-11.el8 before *
unaffected

Default status
unaffected

Default status
unaffected

Default status
affected

Default status
unaffected

Timeline

2023-08-01:	Reported to Red Hat.
2023-08-23:	Made public.

References

access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:7053 (RHSA-2023:7053) vendor-advisory

access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-4042 vdb-entry

bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1870257

bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2228151 (RHBZ#2228151) issue-tracking

cve.org (CVE-2023-4042)

nvd.nist.gov (CVE-2023-4042)

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