Information Exposure Affecting ghostscript-cups package, versions <0:9.07-20.el7_3.1
Threat Intelligence
EPSS
0.28% (69th
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-CENTOS7-GHOSTSCRIPTCUPS-2075120
- published 26 Jul 2021
- disclosed 28 Sep 2016
Introduced: 28 Sep 2016
CVE-2016-7977 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade Centos:7 ghostscript-cups to version 0:9.07-20.el7_3.1 or higher.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream ghostscript-cups package and not the ghostscript-cups package as distributed by Centos.
See How to fix? for Centos:7 relevant fixed versions and status.
Ghostscript before 9.21 might allow remote attackers to bypass the SAFER mode protection mechanism and consequently read arbitrary files via the use of the .libfile operator in a crafted postscript document.
References
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95334
- http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git;a=commitdiff;h=8abd22010eb4db0fb1b10e430d5f5d83e015ef70
- https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=697169
- https://ghostscript.com/doc/9.21/History9.htm
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpujan2018-3236628.html
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-7977
- http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3691
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201702-31
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/09/29/28
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/10/05/15
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0013.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0014.html
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:0013
- http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=8abd22010eb4db0fb1b10e430d5f5d83e015ef70