vulnerability

Alpine Linux: CVE-2017-8291: Type Confusion

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Apr 27, 2017
Added
Sep 20, 2017
Modified
Dec 22, 2025

Description

Artifex Ghostscript through 2017-04-26 allows -dSAFER bypass and remote command execution via .rsdparams type confusion with a "/OutputFile (%pipe%" substring in a crafted .eps document that is an input to the gs program, as exploited in the wild in April 2017.

Solution

alpine-linux-upgrade-ghostscript
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