Ubuntu: USN-3403-1 (CVE-2017-9727): Ghostscript vulnerabilities
7
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
07/26/2017
07/25/2018
08/28/2017
03/02/2020
Description
The gx_ttfReader__Read function in base/gxttfb.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.
Solution(s)
- ubuntu-upgrade-ghostscript
- ubuntu-upgrade-ghostscript-x
- ubuntu-upgrade-libgs9
- ubuntu-upgrade-libgs9-common
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