RHSA-2023:6544 — Security Advisory

An update for ghostscript is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

The Ghostscript suite contains utilities for rendering PostScript and PDF documents. Ghostscript translates PostScript code to common bitmap formats so that the code can be displayed or printed.

Security Fix(es):

• ghostscript: buffer overflow in base/sbcp.c leading to data corruption (CVE-2023-28879)

• ghostscript: Out-of-bound read in base/gdevdevn.c:1973 in devn_pcx_write_rle could result in DoS (CVE-2023-38559)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Additional Changes:

For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.3 Release Notes linked from the References section.