vulnerability

Gentoo Linux: CVE-2017-8291: GPL Ghostscript: Multiple vulnerabilities

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Apr 26, 2017
Added
Oct 30, 2017
Modified
Mar 31, 2026

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

gentoo-linux-upgrade-app-text-ghostscript-gpl
Title
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