PT-2018-6763 · Exempi+1 · Exempi+1

Hubert Figuière · Published 2018-02-27 · Updated 2018-05-16 · CVE-2017-18237

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: Exempi versions prior to 2.4.3

Description: An issue in the PostScript Support::ConvertToDate function allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service, resulting in an invalid pointer dereference and application crash, via a crafted .ps file.

Recommendations: For versions prior to 2.4.3, update to version 2.4.3 or later to resolve the issue. As a temporary workaround, consider restricting the processing of .ps files to minimize the risk of exploitation.

Exploit

Fix

DoS

NULL Pointer Dereference

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-476

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2018-1294

CVE-2017-18237

MGASA-2018-0239

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Exempi

References · 11

• 🔥 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=101914 · Exploit
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2017-18237 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MGASA-2018-0239 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cgit.freedesktop.org/exempi/commit/?id=f19d0107fbae1fb41836cd110d4425e407e64048 · Patch
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2017-18237 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-18237 · Vendor Advisory
• https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2018-0239.html · Security Note
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-18237 · Security Note
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[e-mail]/thread/H4PKNNGR3XYNB7B7BYNWTABCOPERDDLB · Vendor Advisory
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[e-mail]/thread/ZTR7ZDRVKLKSI65QBRMJFDTW4EPRPZYH · Vendor Advisory
• https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=22871 · Note