PT-2017-17576 · Artifex+5 · Ghostscript+5

Kamil Frankowicz · Published 2017-03-21 · Updated 2024-06-15 · CVE-2017-7207

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

5.5

Medium

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Artifex Software, Inc. Ghostscript version 9.20

Description The issue allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service, specifically a NULL pointer dereference, by utilizing a crafted PostScript document. This is related to the mem get bits rectangle function.

Recommendations For version 9.20, consider updating to a newer version that addresses this issue, as the current version is affected by a denial of service vulnerability.

Fix

DoS

NULL Pointer Dereference

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-476

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2018-2344

CESA-2017_2180

CVE-2017-7207

DLA-1048-1

DSA-3838-1

MGASA-2017-0133

OPENSUSE-SU-2017_1203-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:10783-1

RHSA-2017:2180

RHSA-2017_2180

SUSE-SU-2017:1138-1

SUSE-SU-2017:1404-1

SUSE-SU-2018:1140-1

USN-3272-1

USN-3272-2

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Centos

Ghostscript

Red Hat

Suse

Ubuntu

References · 104

• https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3272-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-7207 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-10217 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-5951 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-8291 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-10219 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2017-7207 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-7207 · Security Note
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[e-mail]/thread/IJ3D6O5XHLO4UJVJETVCWPIWWWV6LQUE · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/SUSE-SU-2018:1140-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/USN-3272-2 · Vendor Advisory
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2180 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/openSUSE-SU-2024:10783-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2017-7207 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2017-7207 · Vendor Advisory