CVEvulnerability
CVE-2017-9620
7.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2017-07-26
- 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-125
Description
The xps_select_font_encoding function in xps/xpsfont.c in Artifex Ghostscript GhostXPS 9.21 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (heap-based buffer over-read and application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted document, related to the xps_encode_font_char_imp function.
Affected configurations
• artifex ghostscript ghostxps 9.21
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-125 Out-of-bounds Read weakness
References
- http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=3ee55637480d5e319a5de0481b01c3346855cbc9 git.ghostscript.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/99990 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=698050 Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201811-12 Third Party Advisory
- http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=3ee55637480d5e319a5de0481b01c3346855cbc9 git.ghostscript.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/99990 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=698050 Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201811-12 Third Party Advisory