Information Exposure Affecting ghostscript package, versions [,9.21)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.25% (65th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-GHOSTSCRIPT-2370667
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed23 May 2017
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 23 May 2017

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

How to fix?

Upgrade ghostscript to version 9.21 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Information Exposure. 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.

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