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Alpine: ghostscript: security update to 9.56.1-r1

critical Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 404590

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

 - In Artifex Ghostscript through 10.01.0, there is a buffer overflow leading to potential corruption of data
 internal to the PostScript interpreter, in base/sbcp.c. This affects BCPEncode, BCPDecode, TBCPEncode, and
 TBCPDecode. If the write buffer is filled to one byte less than full, and one then tries to write an
 escaped character, two bytes are written. (CVE-2023-28879)

See Also

https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2023-28879

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 404590

Version: Revision 1.27

Type: Local

Published: 10/31/2023

Updated: 7/2/2026

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.9

Percentile: 57.83

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 7.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-28879

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.8

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

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/31/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-28879

IAVB: 2023-B-0023-S