CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2021-45944

Use After Free

Published: Jan 01, 2022 | Modified: Nov 21, 2024
CVSS 3.x
5.5
MEDIUM
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.x
4.3 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
5.5 MODERATE
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Ubuntu
MEDIUM

Ghostscript GhostPDL 9.50 through 9.53.3 has a use-after-free in sampled_data_sample (called from sampled_data_continue and interp).

Weakness

The product reuses or references memory after it has been freed. At some point afterward, the memory may be allocated again and saved in another pointer, while the original pointer references a location somewhere within the new allocation. Any operations using the original pointer are no longer valid because the memory “belongs” to the code that operates on the new pointer.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Ghostscript Artifex 9.50 (including) 9.53.3 (including)
Ghostscript Ubuntu bionic *
Ghostscript Ubuntu esm-infra/bionic *
Ghostscript Ubuntu esm-infra/focal *
Ghostscript Ubuntu esm-infra/xenial *
Ghostscript Ubuntu focal *
Ghostscript Ubuntu hirsute *
Ghostscript Ubuntu trusty *
Ghostscript Ubuntu upstream *
Ghostscript Ubuntu xenial *

Potential Mitigations

References