PT-2016-7453 · Artifex+5 · Ghostscript+5

Florian Weimer + 1 · Published 2016-10-06 · Updated 2024-06-15 · CVE-2016-7977

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

5.5

Medium

Base vector

AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Ghostscript versions prior to 9.21

Description The issue allows remote attackers to bypass the SAFER mode protection mechanism, which could lead to reading arbitrary files. This can be achieved through the use of the .libfile operator in a crafted postscript document.

Recommendations For Ghostscript versions prior to 9.21, update to version 9.21 or later to resolve the issue.

Fix

Information Disclosure

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-200

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2018-2344

CESA-2017_0013

CESA-2017_0014

CVE-2016-7977

DLA-674-1

DSA-3691-1

DSA-3691-2

MGASA-2017-0133

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:10003-1

RHSA-2017:0013

RHSA-2017:0014

RHSA-2017_0013

RHSA-2017_0014

SUSE-SU-2016:2493-1

USN-3148-1

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Centos

Ghostscript

Red Hat

Suse

Ubuntu

References · 44

• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2016-7977 · Vendor Advisory
• https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2017-0133.html · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DSA-3691-2 · Vendor Advisory
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0014.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-7977 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3148-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-7977 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2016-7977 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-7977 · Vendor Advisory
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0013.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-7977 · Security Note
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/10/05/15 · Patch
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MGASA-2017-0133 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DSA-3691-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-7979 · Vendor Advisory