CVE-2023-52722

Publication date 28 April 2024

Last updated 8 July 2025

Ubuntu priority

Medium

Why this priority?

Cvss 3 Severity Score

5.5 · Medium

Score breakdown

An issue was discovered in Artifex Ghostscript through 10.01.0. psi/zmisc1.c, when SAFER mode is used, allows eexec seeds other than the Type 1 standard.

Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
ghostscript 25.04 plucky
Not affected
24.10 oracular
Not affected
24.04 LTS noble
Not affected
23.10 mantic
Fixed 10.01.2~dfsg1-0ubuntu2.3
22.04 LTS jammy
Fixed 9.55.0~dfsg1-0ubuntu5.7
20.04 LTS focal
Fixed 9.50~dfsg-5ubuntu4.12
18.04 LTS bionic
Not affected
16.04 LTS xenial
Not affected

Patch details

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Package Patch details
ghostscript

Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 5.5 · Medium
Attack vector Local
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction Required
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality None
Integrity impact High
Availability impact None
Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

    • USN-6835-1
    • Ghostscript vulnerabilities
    • 17 June 2024

Other references