vulnerability
Ubuntu: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2017-8291): Ghostscript vulnerabilities
| Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P) | Apr 26, 2017 | Jul 1, 2017 | Mar 27, 2026 |
Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Apr 26, 2017
Added
Jul 1, 2017
Modified
Mar 27, 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.
Solutions
ubuntu-upgrade-ghostscriptubuntu-upgrade-ghostscript-xubuntu-upgrade-libgs9ubuntu-upgrade-libgs9-common
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