Bug 2253365 (CVE-2023-46751)

Summary:	CVE-2023-46751 ghostscript: dangling pointer in gdev_prn_open_printer_seekable()
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Robb Gatica <rgatica>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Product Security <prodsec-ir-bot>
Status:	NEW ---	QA Contact:
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Priority:	medium
Version:	unspecified	CC:	mjg, zdohnal
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Fixed In Version:	ghostscript 10.02.1	Doc Type:	---
Doc Text:	A flaw was found in Ghostscript. A remote attacker may use a specially crafted payload to trigger access to previously freed memory, which can potentially lead to remote code execution or an application crash.	Story Points:	---
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Bug Depends On:	2253366
Bug Blocks:	2253353

Description Robb Gatica 2023-12-06 22:00:15 UTC

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.

https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=707264
https://ghostscript.com/
https://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=dcdbc595c13c9d11d235702dff46bb74c80f7698

Comment 1 Robb Gatica 2023-12-06 22:00:33 UTC

Created ghostscript tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 2253366]

Comment 3 Michael J Gruber 2023-12-09 16:18:44 UTC

That commit has been backported as commit 5d2da96e81c7455338302c71a291088a8396245a which is contained in gs 10.02.1.

Comment 5 errata-xmlrpc 2025-04-30 09:07:13 UTC

This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8

Via RHSA-2025:4362 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:4362

Comment 6 errata-xmlrpc 2025-05-13 11:54:59 UTC

This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9

Via RHSA-2025:7422 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:7422