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ghostscript: Fix of CVE-2023-28879
Type: advisorySources: OSV
- CVE-2023-28879: fix buffer overflow in s_xBCPE_process when an escaped character is written to a buffer that is one byte short of full
- Products
- ghostscript, ghostscript-doc, ghostscript-gtk, ghostscript-tools-dvipdf, ghostscript-tools-fonts, ghostscript-tools-printing, ghostscript-x11, libgs, libgs-devel
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- 9.27-1.el8_5.tuxcare.els1
- CVEs
- CVE-2023-28879
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 11:17 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
- CVE-2023-28879: fix buffer overflow in s_xBCPE_process when an escaped character is written to a buffer that is one byte short of full
osv:CLSA-2026-1792239264
ghostscript
Fixed versions: 9.27-1.el8_5.tuxcare.els1
ghostscript-doc
Fixed versions: 9.27-1.el8_5.tuxcare.els1
ghostscript-gtk
Fixed versions: 9.27-1.el8_5.tuxcare.els1
ghostscript-tools-dvipdf
Fixed versions: 9.27-1.el8_5.tuxcare.els1
ghostscript-tools-fonts
Fixed versions: 9.27-1.el8_5.tuxcare.els1
ghostscript-tools-printing
Fixed versions: 9.27-1.el8_5.tuxcare.els1
ghostscript-x11
Fixed versions: 9.27-1.el8_5.tuxcare.els1
libgs
Fixed versions: 9.27-1.el8_5.tuxcare.els1
libgs-devel
Fixed versions: 9.27-1.el8_5.tuxcare.els1
Complete source record
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