Out-of-bounds Read The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package ghostscript (opens in a new tab)
Threat Intelligence
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Test your applications- Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1604-GHOSTSCRIPT-615157
- published10 Sept 2020
- disclosed26 Jul 2017
Introduced: 26 Jul 2017
CVE-2017-9620 (opens in a new tab)Amendment
The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:16.04.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream ghostscript package and not the ghostscript package as distributed by Ubuntu.
The xps_select_font_encoding function in xps/xpsfont.c in Artifex Ghostscript GhostXPS 9.21 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (heap-based buffer over-read and application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted document, related to the xps_encode_font_char_imp function.
References
- http://people.ubuntu.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2017-9620
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/99990
- http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git;a=commit;h=3ee55637480d5e319a5de0481b01c3346855cbc9
- https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=698050
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201811-12
- http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=3ee55637480d5e319a5de0481b01c3346855cbc9