CVE-2017-11714

Aliases:DEBIAN-CVE-2017-11714
Advisory lineage Upstream: 0 Downstream: 8
Modified
Published: 28 Jul 2017, 05:00
Last modified:05 Aug 2024, 18:19

Vulnerability Summary

Overall Risk (default)
medium
32/100
CVSS Score
7.8 HIGH
v3.0 (nvd)
EPSS Score
2.3% LOW
2% probability +1.97%
KEV
Not listed
Ransomware
No reports
Public exploits
None found
Dark Web
Not detected

Timeline

28 Jul 2017, 05:00
Published
Vulnerability first disclosed
05 Aug 2024, 18:19
Last Modified
Vulnerability information updated

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.

CVSS Metrics

  • v3.0•HIGH•Score: 7.8CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
  • v2.0•MEDIUM•Score: 6.8AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

EPSS Trends

Current EPSS score: 2.30%• Percentile: 83%

Techniques & Countermeasures

  • CWE-125•Out-of-bounds Read

    The product reads data past the end, or before the beginning, of the intended buffer.

Affected Systems

  • artifex•ghostscript

    9.21

  • debian•ghostscript

    < 9.22~dfsg-1 | < 9.22~dfsg-1 | < 9.22~dfsg-1 | < 9.22~dfsg-1

  • debian•debian_linux

    8.0 | 9.0

References (6)