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Ubuntu: USN-3403-1 (CVE-2017-11714): Ghostscript vulnerabilities

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Ubuntu: USN-3403-1 (CVE-2017-11714): Ghostscript vulnerabilities

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
07/28/2017
Created
07/25/2018
Added
08/28/2017
Modified
05/03/2019

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.

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-ghostscript
  • ubuntu-upgrade-ghostscript-x
  • ubuntu-upgrade-libgs9
  • ubuntu-upgrade-libgs9-common

References

  • USN-3403-1
  • DSA-3986
  • 1039233
  • GLSA-201811-12
  • CVE-2017-11714

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