| Name | CVE-2023-36664 |
| Description | Artifex Ghostscript through 10.01.2 mishandles permission validation for pipe devices (with the %pipe% prefix or the | pipe character prefix). |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
| References | DSA-5446-1 |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| ghostscript (PTS) | buster | 9.27~dfsg-2+deb10u5 | fixed |
| buster (security) | 9.27~dfsg-2+deb10u9 | fixed |
| bullseye | 9.53.3~dfsg-7+deb11u6 | fixed |
| bullseye (security) | 9.53.3~dfsg-7+deb11u5 | fixed |
| bookworm, bookworm (security) | 10.0.0~dfsg-11+deb12u3 | fixed |
| trixie | 10.02.1~dfsg-3 | fixed |
| sid | 10.03.0~dfsg-1 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
Notes
[buster] - ghostscript <not-affected> (Vulnerable code not present; no path validation at all)
https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=706761
https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=706778
https://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git;a=commit;h=505eab7782b429017eb434b2b95120855f2b0e3c
https://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git;a=commit;h=0974e4f2ac0005d3731e0b5c13ebc7e965540f4d
https://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git;a=commit;h=5e65eeae225c7d02d447de5abaf4a8e6d234fcea (ghostpdl-10.01.2)
https://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git;a=commit;h=fb342fdb60391073a69147cb71af1ac416a81099 (ghostpdl-10.01.2)