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CVE-2015-3228

Published: 11/08/2015 Updated: 07/11/2023
CVSS v2 Base Score: 6.8 | Impact Score: 6.4 | Exploitability Score: 8.6
VMScore: 605
Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
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Vulnerability Summary

Integer overflow in the gs_heap_alloc_bytes function in base/gsmalloc.c in Ghostscript 9.15 and previous versions allows remote malicious users to cause a denial of service (crash) via a crafted Postscript (ps) file, as demonstrated by using the ps2pdf command, which triggers an out-of-bounds read or write.

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Vendor Advisories

Debian CVElist Bug Report Logs: ghostscript: CVE-2015-3228: Integer overflow
Debian Bug report logs - #793489 ghostscript: CVE-2015-3228: Integer overflow Package: ghostscript; Maintainer for ghostscript is Debian Printing Team <debian-printing@listsdebianorg>; Source for ghostscript is src:ghostscript (PTS, buildd, popcon) Reported by: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debianorg> Date: Fri, 24 Jul ...
Ubuntu Security Notice: ghostscript vulnerability
Ghostscript could be made to crash or run programs if it processed a specially crafted file ...
Debian Security Advisories: DSA-3326-1 ghostscript -- security update
William Robinet and Stefan Cornelius discovered an integer overflow in Ghostscript, the GPL PostScript/PDF interpreter, which may result in denial of service or potentially execution of arbitrary code if a specially crafted file is opened For the oldstable distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed in version 905~dfsg-63+deb7u2 For the ...
Red Hat: CVE-2015-3228
An integer overflow flaw was discovered in one of Ghostscript's memory allocation routines A remote attacker could possibly exploit this flaw to cause a crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code by tricking a user into processing a specially crafted file ...

References

CWE-189http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2697-1http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3326http://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=696041http://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=696070http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/07/23/14https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1232805http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinjul2016-3090568.htmlhttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/76017https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201612-33http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1033149http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=0c0b0859https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=793489https://usn.ubuntu.com/2697-1/https://nvd.nist.govhttps://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2015-3228
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