Vulnerability CVE-2023-38559
Published: 2023-08-01

Description:
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.

 References:
https://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git;a=commitdiff;h=d81b82c70bc1
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-38559
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2224367
https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=706897
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