Critical Security Vulnerability Fixed in Ghostscript Version 10.01.0

By Henry Stiles - Friday, April 07, 2023

Artifex is pleased to announce that our team of developers have successfully addressed and fixed a critical security vulnerability in Artifex Ghostscript, version 10.01.0. A CVE (Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures) identifier has been assigned to the issue, https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-28879.

On March 23, 2023, a security researcher, Hadrien Perrineau, reported the buffer overflow and exploit, on March 24 Artifex fixed the overflow and removed other related code reducing the attack surface. Fixes were published here:

https://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git;h=37ed5022cecd584de868933b5b60da2e995b3179

A release, Ghostscript and GhostPDL 10.01.1, was published on March 27. An email alert was sent out to all Artifex customers on March 27 notifying them of the bug and the fix. Artifex worked with customers to integrate the solution into their products as quickly as possible. On April 7 the bug was made public.

Users of Ghostscript are urged to update their software to the latest version immediately. By doing so, they will be able to mitigate the risk associated with this vulnerability and ensure the security and integrity of their systems.