CVE-2023-4042

medium

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.

References

Advisories

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2228151

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1870257

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-4042

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:7053

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2023-08-23

Updated: 2023-12-27

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4.9

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 5.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H