CVE-2023-4042

Summary

CVE	CVE-2023-4042
State	PUBLIC
Assigner	[email protected]
Source Priority	CVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published	2023-08-23 13:15:00 UTC
Updated	2023-11-14 21:15:00 UTC
Description	A flaw was found in ghostscript. The fix for CVE-2020-16305 in ghostscript was not included in RHSA-2021:1852-06 advisory as it was claimed to be. This issue only affects the ghostscript package as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-787

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

Type	Vendor	Product	Version	Update	Edition	Language
Application	Artifex	Ghostscript	All	All	All	All
Operating System	Redhat	Enterprise Linux	8.0	All	All	All

References

Reference	Source	Link	Tags
1870257 – (CVE-2020-16305) CVE-2020-16305 ghostscript: buffer overflow in pcx_write_rle() in contrib/japanese/gdev10v.c could result in a DoS	MISC	bugzilla.redhat.com
2228151 – (CVE-2023-4042) CVE-2023-4042 ghostscript: Incomplete fix for CVE-2020-16305	MISC	bugzilla.redhat.com
cve-details	MISC	access.redhat.com
Red Hat		access.redhat.com
CVE Program record	CVE.ORG	www.cve.org	canonical
NVD vulnerability detail	NVD	nvd.nist.gov	canonical, analysis

No vendor comments have been submitted for this CVE.

Legacy QID Mappings

161137 Oracle Enterprise Linux Security Update for ghostscript (ELSA-2023-7053)
242407 Red Hat Update for ghostscript (RHSA-2023:7053)
941434 AlmaLinux Security Update for ghostscript (ALSA-2023:7053)