CVE-2017-11714
ghostscript - security update
7.8
HIGH
CVSS 3.1
EPSS 0.34%
Description
psi/ztoken.c in Artifex Ghostscript 9.21 mishandles references to the scanner state structure, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted PostScript document, related to an out-of-bounds read in the igc_reloc_struct_ptr function in psi/igc.c.
How to fix CVE-2017-11714
To remediate CVE-2017-11714, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.
- —upgrade to 9.22~dfsg-1 or later
- —upgrade to 9.05~dfsg-6.3+deb7u7 or later
- —upgrade to 9.06~dfsg-2+deb8u6 or later
Is CVE-2017-11714 being exploited?
Low — EPSS is 0.3%, meaning exploitation activity has not been observed at scale.
Affected packages (3)
- from 0, < 9.22~dfsg-1
- from 0, < 9.05~dfsg-6.3+deb7u7
- from 0, < 9.06~dfsg-2+deb8u6
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | HIGH7.8 | CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |