CVEvulnerability
CVE-2016-8602
7.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2017-04-14
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 6.8 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-704
Description
The .sethalftone5 function in psi/zht2.c in Ghostscript before 9.21 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted Postscript document that calls .sethalftone5 with an empty operand stack.
Affected configurations
• artifex ghostscript (<= 9.20)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-704 Incorrect Type Conversion or Cast weakness
References
- http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=f5c7555c303 git.ghostscript.com
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0013.html rhn.redhat.com
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0014.html rhn.redhat.com
- http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3691 www.debian.org
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/10/11/5 Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/10/11/7 Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95311 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=697203 Issue Tracking, Patch
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1383940 Issue Tracking, Patch
- https://ghostscript.com/doc/9.21/History9.htm Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201702-31 security.gentoo.org
- http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=f5c7555c303 git.ghostscript.com
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0013.html rhn.redhat.com
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0014.html rhn.redhat.com
- http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3691 www.debian.org
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/10/11/5 Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/10/11/7 Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95311 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=697203 Issue Tracking, Patch
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1383940 Issue Tracking, Patch
- https://ghostscript.com/doc/9.21/History9.htm Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201702-31 security.gentoo.org