CVE-2016-7979 - Incorrect Type Conversion or Cast

Severity

75%

Complexity

99%

Confidentiality

106%

Ghostscript before 9.21 might allow remote attackers to bypass the SAFER mode protection mechanism and consequently execute arbitrary code by leveraging type confusion in .initialize_dsc_parser.

Ghostscript before 9.21 might allow remote attackers to bypass the SAFER mode protection mechanism and consequently execute arbitrary code by leveraging type confusion in .initialize_dsc_parser.

CVSS 3.0 Base Score 9.8. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H).

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 7.5. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P).

Overview

First reported 7 years ago

2017-05-23 04:29:00

Last updated 7 years ago

2018-01-05 02:31:00

Affected Software

Artifex Ghostscript

References

http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git;h=875a0095f37626a721c7ff57d606a0f95af03913

Patch

RHSA-2017:0013

RHSA-2017:0014

DSA-3691

[oss-security] 20161005 Re: CVE Request - multiple ghostscript -dSAFER sandbox problems

Mailing List, Patch

95337

Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry

https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=697190

Issue Tracking, Patch

GLSA-201702-31

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