CVE-2017-11714

HIGH

Ghostscript 9.21 - DoS

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

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
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