{"answers":{"affected":"It affects 2 products.","exploited":"It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2023-28879 exists.","fix":"Apply the vendor's patch.","what":"CVE-2023-28879 is a critical memory corruption vulnerability in Artifex Ghostscript, published on 31 Mar 2023. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim."},"fix_prompt":"Check this codebase for CVE-2023-28879 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2023-28879 is a critical memory corruption vulnerability in Artifex Ghostscript, published on 31 Mar 2023. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.\nExploitation: It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2023-28879 exists.\n\nAffected product: Artifex Ghostscript. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.\n\nTask:\n1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.\n2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.\n3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.\n4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.\n5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.\n\nReference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-28879/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-28879/index.md)","id":"CVE-2023-28879","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-28879/index.md","name":"CVE-2023-28879","record":{"aliases":["ALPINE-CVE-2023-28879","CLSA-2025-1742923385","CLSA-2026-1792239264","DEBIAN-CVE-2023-28879","DLA-3381-1","DSA-5383-1","GHSA-6mcj-frmm-wmr5","MGASA-2023-0134","SUSE-SU-2023:1797-1","SUSE-SU-2023:1799-1","UBUNTU-CVE-2023-28879","USN-6017-1","openSUSE-SU-2024:12853-1"],"analysis":{"component_type":"library","fix_type":"patch","impacts":["code_execution","denial_of_service"],"network_reachable":"yes","non_default_config":false,"product_category":"Ghostscript PostScript interpreter","requires_auth":"none","summary":"A buffer overflow in Ghostscript's PostScript interpreter allows attackers to corrupt memory, potentially leading to code execution or denial of service.","user_interaction":"not_required","vuln_class":"memory_corruption"},"analysis_generated_by":"qwen3.8-flash-next","assigner":"mitre","cpe":[{"product":"ghostscript","vendor":"artifex"},{"product":"debian_linux","vendor":"debian"}],"cvss":{"score":9.8,"severity":"critical","source":"cisa-adp","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H","version":"3.1"},"cwes":[{"id":"CWE-787","name":"Out-of-bounds Write"}],"description":"In Artifex Ghostscript through 10.01.0, there is a buffer overflow leading to potential corruption of data internal to the PostScript interpreter, in base/sbcp.c. 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