CVE-2017-11714 (GCVE-0-2017-11714)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2017-07-28 05:00 – Updated: 2024-08-05 18:19
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Summary
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.
Severity
7.8 (High)
CWE
- n/a
Assigner
References
5 references
| URL | Tags |
|---|---|
| http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1039233 | vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACK |
| http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Ba=co… | x_refsource_CONFIRM |
| https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201811-12 | vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO |
| http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3986 | vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIAN |
| https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=698158 | x_refsource_CONFIRM |
Date Public
2017-07-27 00:00
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