Information Exposure Affecting ghostscript package, versions <9.25~dfsg-1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.11% (46th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN12-GHOSTSCRIPT-1546961
  • published23 May 2019
  • disclosed23 May 2019

Introduced: 23 May 2019

CVE-2017-15652  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-200  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:12 ghostscript to version 9.25~dfsg-1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream ghostscript package and not the ghostscript package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:12 relevant fixed versions and status.

Artifex Ghostscript 9.22 is affected by: Obtain Information. The impact is: obtain sensitive information. The component is: affected source code file, affected function, affected executable, affected libga (imagemagick used that). The attack vector is: Someone must open a postscript file though ghostscript. Because of imagemagick also use libga, so it was affected as well.