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CVE-2017-8291

Publication date 26 April 2017

Last updated 21 August 2024

Ubuntu priority

High

Why this priority?

Cvss 3 Severity Score

7.8 · High

Score breakdown

Artifex Ghostscript through 2017-04-26 allows -dSAFER bypass and remote command execution via .rsdparams type confusion with a "/OutputFile (%pipe%" substring in a crafted .eps document that is an input to the gs program, as exploited in the wild in April 2017.

Read the notes from the security team

Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
ghostscript 17.04 zesty
Fixed 9.19~dfsg+1-0ubuntu7.2
16.10 yakkety
Fixed 9.19~dfsg+1-0ubuntu6.4
16.04 LTS xenial
Fixed 9.18~dfsg~0-0ubuntu2.4
14.04 LTS trusty
Fixed 9.10~dfsg-0ubuntu10.7
12.04 LTS precise
Fixed 9.05~dfsg-0ubuntu4.5

Notes

sbeattie

introduced regression (LP: #1687614); needs upstream commits 57f20719e1cfaea77b67cb26e26de7fe4d7f9b2e and ccfd2c75ac9be4cbd369e4cbdd40ba11a0c7bdad

Patch details

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Package Patch details
ghostscript

Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 7.8 · High
Attack vector Local
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction Required
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality High
Integrity impact High
Availability impact High
Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H