CVE-2023-38560

5.5 mediumEPSS 0.3%

Medium (5.5) in artifex ghostscript. EPSS 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

An integer overflow flaw was found in pcl/pl/plfont.c:418 in pl_glyph_name in ghostscript. This issue may allow a local attacker to cause a denial of service via transforming a crafted PCL file to PDF format.

Severity

CVSS 3.1

5.5 medium

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 25% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE: CWE-190
Published: 2023-08-01
Modified: 2026-06-17
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

Affected

artifex:ghostscript

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-38560
https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=706898
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2224368
https://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git;a=commitdiff;h=b7eb1d0174c
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-38560

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