CVE-2023-4042

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-4042
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2023-4042.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2023-4042
Downstream
Related
Published
2023-08-23T13:15:07.847Z
Modified
2026-04-11T12:45:23.541760Z
Severity
  • 5.5 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

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.

Database specific 
{
    "unresolved_ranges": [
        {
            "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:redhat:codeready_linux_builder:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
            "extracted_events": [
                {
                    "last_affected": "8.0"
                }
            ],
            "source": "CPE_FIELD"
        },
        {
            "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:redhat:codeready_linux_builder_for_arm64:8.0_aarch64:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
            "extracted_events": [
                {
                    "last_affected": "8.0_aarch64"
                }
            ],
            "source": "CPE_FIELD"
        },
        {
            "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:redhat:codeready_linux_builder_for_ibm_z_systems:8.0_s390x:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
            "extracted_events": [
                {
                    "last_affected": "8.0_s390x"
                }
            ],
            "source": "CPE_FIELD"
        },
        {
            "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:redhat:codeready_linux_builder_for_power_little_endian:8.0_ppc64le:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
            "extracted_events": [
                {
                    "last_affected": "8.0_ppc64le"
                }
            ],
            "source": "CPE_FIELD"
        },
        {
            "cpe": "cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
            "extracted_events": [
                {
                    "last_affected": "8.0"
                }
            ],
            "source": "CPE_FIELD"
        },
        {
            "cpe": "cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_for_arm_64:8.0_aarch64:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
            "extracted_events": [
                {
                    "last_affected": "8.0_aarch64"
                }
            ],
            "source": "CPE_FIELD"
        },
        {
            "cpe": "cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_for_ibm_z_systems:8.0_s390x:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
            "extracted_events": [
                {
                    "last_affected": "8.0_s390x"
                }
            ],
            "source": "CPE_FIELD"
        },
        {
            "cpe": "cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_for_power_little_endian:8.0_ppc64le:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
            "extracted_events": [
                {
                    "last_affected": "8.0_ppc64le"
                }
            ],
            "source": "CPE_FIELD"
        }
    ]
}
References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/artifexsoftware/ghostpdl-downloads

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/artifexsoftware/ghostpdl-downloads
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Fixed
16c7521e7784c75cbdc5ab31f4fe407eb7d72ae9
Database specific 
{
    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:artifex:ghostscript:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
    "extracted_events": [
        {
            "introduced": "0"
        },
        {
            "fixed": "9.51"
        }
    ],
    "source": "CPE_FIELD"
}

Affected versions

9.*
9.21rc1
9.27
9.27rc1
ghostpdl-9.*
ghostpdl-9.51rc2
gs9.*
gs9.26rc1
gs9.27
Other
gs918
gs919
gs920
gs920rc1
gs921
gs922
gs922rc1
gs922rc2
gs923
gs923rc1
gs924
gs924rc2
gs925
gs925rc1
gs926
gs927
gs928rc1
gs928rc2
gs928rc3
gs928rc4
gs950
gs951rc3

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2023-4042.json"