CVE-2023-46751

Publication date 7 December 2023

Last updated 26 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

Description

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.

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Status

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Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
ghostscript	24.04 LTS noble	Fixed 10.02.1~dfsg1-0ubuntu1
	23.10 mantic	Fixed 10.01.2~dfsg1-0ubuntu2.2
	23.04 lunar	Fixed 10.0.0~dfsg1-0ubuntu1.5
	22.04 LTS jammy	Fixed 9.55.0~dfsg1-0ubuntu5.6
	20.04 LTS focal	Not affected
	18.04 LTS bionic	Not affected
	16.04 LTS xenial	Not affected
	14.04 LTS trusty	Ignored end of standard support

Notes

mdeslaur

introduced by: https://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git;a=commit;h=e1a3956f252404f07d93be47f7845b23e4a2c4de

Patch details

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Package	Patch details
ghostscript	Upstream: https://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git;a=commit;h=dcdbc595c13c9d11d235702dff46bb74c80f7698 Upstream: https://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git;a=commit;h=5d2da96e81c7455338302c71a291088a8396245a

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	7.5 · High
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	None
Integrity impact	None
Availability impact	High
Vector	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H