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Ubuntu: USN-3403-1 (CVE-2017-9611): Ghostscript vulnerabilities

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Jul 26, 2017
Added
Aug 28, 2017
Modified
Mar 27, 2026

Description

The Ins_MIRP function in base/ttinterp.c in Artifex Ghostscript GhostXPS 9.21 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (heap-based buffer over-read and application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted document.

Solutions

ubuntu-upgrade-ghostscriptubuntu-upgrade-ghostscript-xubuntu-upgrade-libgs9ubuntu-upgrade-libgs9-common
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