CVE-2017-11714
Description
psi/ztoken.c in Artifex Ghostscript 9.21 mishandles references to the scanner state structure, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted PostScript document, related to an out-of-bounds read in the igc_reloc_struct_ptr function in psi/igc.c.
Predictions
Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
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OS impact
| OS | Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|
| sles | affected | | |
| debian | bookworm | fixed | 9.22~dfsg-1 |
| debian | bullseye | fixed | 9.22~dfsg-1 |
| debian | forky | fixed | 9.22~dfsg-1 |
| debian | sid | fixed | 9.22~dfsg-1 |
| debian | trixie | fixed | 9.22~dfsg-1 |
| debian | 8.0 | affected | |
| debian | 9.0 | affected | |
Application impact
| Vendor | Product | Versions | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| artifex | ghostscript | 9.21 | |
References
- http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=671fd59eb657743aa86fbc1895cb15872a317caa
- http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3986
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1039233
- https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=698158
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201811-12
- https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-11714.html
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-11714
CWEs
CWE-125
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.