CVE-2017-11714

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.

Category

7.8
CVSS
Severity: High
CVSS 3.0 •
CVSS 2.0 •
EPSS 0.14%
Vendor Advisory gentoo.org Vendor Advisory debian.org
Affected: n/a n/a
Published at:
Updated at:

References

Link Tags
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1039233 vdb entry third party advisory
http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=671fd59eb657743aa86fbc1895cb15872a317caa
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201811-12 third party advisory vendor advisory
http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3986 third party advisory vendor advisory
https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=698158 issue tracking third party advisory patch

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the severity of CVE-2017-11714?
CVE-2017-11714 has been scored as a high severity vulnerability.
How to fix CVE-2017-11714?
To fix CVE-2017-11714, make sure you are using an up-to-date version of the affected component(s) by checking the vendor release notes. As for now, there are no other specific guidelines available.
Is CVE-2017-11714 being actively exploited in the wild?
As for now, there are no information to confirm that CVE-2017-11714 is being actively exploited. According to its EPSS score, there is a ~0% probability that this vulnerability will be exploited by malicious actors in the next 30 days.
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