CVE-2023-38559: Artifex Ghostscript

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

A buffer overflow flaw was found in base/gdevdevn.c:1973 in devn_pcx_write_rle() in ghostscript. This issue may allow a local attacker to cause a denial of service via outputting a crafted PDF file for a DEVN device with gs.

Affected products

• Artifex Ghostscript: before 10.02.0 (fixed in 10.02.0)
• Debian Debian Linux: version 10.0 only
• Fedoraproject Fedora: version 37 only; version 38 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux: version 8.0 only; version 9.0 only

Published 2023-08-01. Last modified 2026-06-23.