PT-2017-18021 · Artifex · Artifex Ghostscript

Kamil Frankowicz · Published 2017-04-19 · Updated 2019-03-19 · CVE-2017-7948

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

7.8

High

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Artifex Ghostscript version 9.21

Description The issue is related to an integer overflow in the mark curve function, which can be triggered by a crafted PostScript document. This can cause a denial of service due to an out-of-bounds write and application crash, and potentially have other unspecified impacts.

Recommendations For Artifex Ghostscript version 9.21, consider updating to a newer version that addresses this issue, as using a crafted PostScript document can lead to a denial of service or other unspecified impacts. At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

Exploit

Integer Overflow

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-190

Related Identifiers

CVE-2017-7948

MGASA-2017-0430

Affected Products

Artifex Ghostscript

References · 11

• 🔥 https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=697762 · Exploit
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201811-12 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-7948 · Security Note
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-7948 · Vendor Advisory
• https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2017-0430.html · Security Note
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[e-mail]/thread/2QUCMGMEGU4TK3I5424ZFZYFJHEQRF4P · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2017-7948 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2017-7948 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MGASA-2017-0430 · Vendor Advisory
• https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=22052 · Note
• http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Bh=8210a2864372723b49c526e2b102fdc00c9c4699 · Note