CVE-2021-45944

A heap-use-after-free flaw was found in Ghostscript’s GhostPDL in the sampled_data_sample function (called from sampled_data_continue and interp). This flaw allows a local attacker to pass a specially crafted malicious file to Ghostscript that triggers a heap-use-after-free issue, potentially causing a crash that leads to a denial of service.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this issue as having Moderate security impact and the issue is not currently planned to be addressed in future updates for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 and 7, hence, marked as Out-of-Support-Scope. For additional information, refer to the Red Hat Enterprise Linux Life Cycle & Updates Policy: https://access.redhat.com/support/policy/updates/errata/.

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