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CVE-2023-4042

Ghostscript: incomplete fix for cve-2020-16305

Published: 8/23/2023 Last updated: 7/1/2025 Reserved: 8/1/2023

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.

CNA assigner: redhat (53f830b8-0a3f-465b-8143-3b8a9948e749) Requested by: n/a

Metrics

Version Score Severity Vector String
3.1 5.5 Medium CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Opam packages affected (1)

conf-ghostscript

Products affected (10)

Product Vendor Version
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 Red Hat 7.0.2
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Red Hat 23.0 ap378153
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Red Hat < 17.4R3-S5
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Red Hat 7.0.0
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Red Hat 9.14.4.22
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 Red Hat 23.0 ap383754
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Red Hat n/a
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Red Hat < 6.2.9200.23347
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Red Hat 9.14.4.23
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Red Hat n/a

References (16)