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Artifex Ghostscript: (CVE-2017-8291) Remote Command Execution

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Artifex Ghostscript: (CVE-2017-8291) Remote Command Execution

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
04/26/2017
Created
03/19/2019
Added
10/10/2018
Modified
11/08/2023

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(s)

  • ghostscript-upgrade-9_22

References

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