Bug 2253365 (CVE-2023-46751) - CVE-2023-46751 ghostscript: dangling pointer in gdev_prn_open_printer_seekable()
Summary: CVE-2023-46751 ghostscript: dangling pointer in gdev_prn_open_printer_seekable()
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2023-46751
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Product Security
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Depends On: 2253366
Blocks: 2253353
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2023-12-06 22:00 UTC by Robb Gatica
Modified: 2025-05-14 09:20 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

Fixed In Version: ghostscript 10.02.1
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System ID Private Priority Status Summary Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata RHBA-2025:7572 0 None None None 2025-05-14 09:20:01 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2025:4362 0 None None None 2025-04-30 09:07:14 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2025:7422 0 None None None 2025-05-13 11:55:00 UTC

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
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