Bug#1043033: ghostscript: CVE-2023-38559

[Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debian.org>]

Source: ghostscript
Version: 10.01.2~dfsg-1
Severity: important
Tags: security upstream
Forwarded: https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=706897
X-Debbugs-Cc: carnil@debian.org, Debian Security Team <team@security.debian.org>
Control: found -1 10.0.0~dfsg-11+deb12u1
Control: found -1 10.0.0~dfsg-11
Control: found -1 9.53.3~dfsg-7+deb11u5
Control: found -1 9.53.3~dfsg-7

Hi,

The following vulnerability was published for ghostscript.

CVE-2023-38559[0]:
| A buffer overflow flaw was found in base/gdevdevn.c:1973 in
| devn_pcx_write_rle() in ghostscript. This issue may allow a local
| attacker to cause a denial of service via outputting a crafted PDF
| file for a DEVN device with gs.


If you fix the vulnerability please also make sure to include the
CVE (Common Vulnerabilities & Exposures) id in your changelog entry.

For further information see:

[0] https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2023-38559
    https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-38559
[1] https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=706897 (private)
[2] https://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git;a=commitdiff;h=d81b82c70bc1fb9991bb95f1201abb5dea55f57f

Regards,
Salvatore