PT-2017-7817 · Artifex+3 · Ghostscript+3

Kamil Frankowicz · Published 2017-04-03 · Updated 2024-06-15 · CVE-2016-10220

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 Ghostscript version 9.20

Description The issue allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service, resulting in a NULL pointer dereference and application crash, via a crafted file that is mishandled in the PDF Transparency module. This occurs due to a problem in the gs makewordimagedevice function.

Recommendations For Ghostscript version 9.20, consider disabling the gs makewordimagedevice function as a temporary workaround until a patch is available. Restrict access to the PDF Transparency module to minimize the risk of exploitation.

Exploit

Fix

DoS

NULL Pointer Dereference

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-476

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2018-2344

CVE-2016-10220

DLA-905-1

DSA-3838-1

MGASA-2017-0133

OPENSUSE-SU-2017_1203-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:10783-1

SUSE-SU-2017:1138-1

SUSE-SU-2017:1404-1

USN-3272-1

USN-3272-2

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Ghostscript

Suse

Ubuntu

References · 82

• 🔥 https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=697450 · Exploit
• 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://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2016-10220 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-10219 · Vendor Advisory
• http://ghostscript.com/cgi-bin/findgit.cgi?daf85701dab05f17e924a48a81edc9195b4a04e8 · Vendor Advisory
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[e-mail]/thread/IJ3D6O5XHLO4UJVJETVCWPIWWWV6LQUE · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/USN-3272-2 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-10220 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/openSUSE-SU-2024:10783-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-10220 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/USN-3272-1 · Vendor Advisory