PT-2015-6107 · Artifex+2 · Ghostscript+2

William Robinet · Published 2015-07-24 · Updated 2024-06-15 · CVE-2015-3228

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

6.8

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Ghostscript versions 9.15 and earlier

Description The issue is caused by an integer overflow in the gs heap alloc bytes function, which can lead to a denial of service (crash) when processing a crafted Postscript file. This can be triggered using the ps2pdf command, resulting in an out-of-bounds read or write.

Recommendations For Ghostscript versions 9.15 and earlier, update to a version later than 9.15 to resolve the issue.

Fix

DoS

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-189

Related Identifiers

CVE-2015-3228

DLA-280-1

DSA-3326-1

MGASA-2015-0308

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:10003-1

SUSE-SU-2016:0884-1

SUSE-SU-2016:2493-1

SUSE-SU-2016_0884-1

USN-2697-1

Affected Products

Ghostscript

Suse

Ubuntu

References · 47

• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2015-3228 · Security Note
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-3228 · Security Note
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/DSA-3326-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2015-0308.html · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/SUSE-SU-2016:0884-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/SUSE-SU-2016:2493-1 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-3228 · Security Note
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/source-package/ghostscript · Vendor Advisory
• http://ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2697-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2697-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2015-3228 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MGASA-2015-0308 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201612-33 · Vendor Advisory
• http://debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3326 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2015-3228 · Vendor Advisory