CVE-2023-46751

Red Hat statement

The discovered vulnerability in the function gdev_prn_open_printer_seekable() within Artifex Ghostscript, poses a moderate severity threat due to its potential to cause a denial-of-service (DoS) condition. Exploiting this flaw involves manipulating a dangling pointer, which can lead to crashing the application. While the impact is limited to crashing the application, the exploit requires remote access, which elevates the risk compared to local-only vulnerabilities.

Red Hat mitigation

Mitigation for this issue is either not available or the currently available options do not meet the Red Hat Product Security criteria comprising ease of use and deployment, applicability to widespread installation base or stability.