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ghostscript — security advisory
Artifex Ghostscript before 10.01.2 mishandles permission validation for pipe devices (with the %pipe% prefix or the | pipe character prefix).
- Products
- ghostscript
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- 9.55.0-r2, 9.56.1-r2
- CVEs
- CVE-2023-36664
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 14:58 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
Artifex Ghostscript before 10.01.2 mishandles permission validation for pipe devices (with the %pipe% prefix or the | pipe character prefix).
osv:ALPINE-CVE-2023-36664
ghostscript
Fixed versions: 9.55.0-r2
ghostscript
Fixed versions: 9.56.1-r2
Complete source record
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"source_id": "core-osv",
"document_id": 454454,
"published_at": "2023-06-25T22:15:21.463+00:00"
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