Information Exposure Affecting ghostscript-cups package, versions <0:9.07-20.el7_3.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.25% (64th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL7-GHOSTSCRIPTCUPS-4625002
  • published26 Jul 2021
  • disclosed28 Sept 2016

Introduced: 28 Sep 2016

CVE-2016-7977  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-200  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade RHEL:7 ghostscript-cups to version 0:9.07-20.el7_3.1 or higher.
This issue was patched in RHSA-2017:0013.

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 RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL: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.