CVEvulnerability
CVE-2017-9835
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-190
Description
The gs_alloc_ref_array function in psi/ialloc.c in Artifex Ghostscript 9.21 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (heap-based buffer overflow and application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted PostScript document. This is related to a lack of an integer overflow check in base/gsalloc.c.
Affected configurations
• artifex ghostscript 9.21
• debian debian linux 8.0
• debian debian linux 9.0
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-190 Integer Overflow or Wraparound weakness
References
- http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=cfde94be1d4286bc47633c6e6eaf4e659bd78066 git.ghostscript.com
- http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3986 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/99991 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=697985 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=cfde94be1d4286bc47633c6e6eaf4e659bd78066 git.ghostscript.com
- http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3986 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/99991 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=697985 Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201811-12 Third Party Advisory