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.
References (5)
Core 5
Core References
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry
x_refsource_sectrack
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1039233
Patch x_refsource_confirm
http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=671fd59eb657743aa86fbc1895cb15872a317caa
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory
x_refsource_gentoo
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201811-12
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory
x_refsource_debian
http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3986
Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_confirm
https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=698158
Scores
CVSS v3
7.8
EPSS
0.0034
EPSS Percentile
56.4%
Attack Vector
LOCAL
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Details
CWE
CWE-125
Status
published
Products (3)
artifex/ghostscript
9.21
debian/debian_linux
8.0
debian/debian_linux
9.0
Published
Jul 28, 2017
Tracked Since
Feb 18, 2026