vulnerability

Amazon Linux AMI: CVE-2016-8602: Security patch for ghostscript (ALAS-2017-784)

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Oct 26, 2016
Added
Jan 11, 2017
Modified
Feb 2, 2018

Description

The .sethalftone5 function in psi/zht2.c in Ghostscript before 9.21 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted Postscript document that calls .sethalftone5 with an empty operand stack.

Solution

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