CVE-2017-8291 - Incorrect Type Conversion or Cast

Severity

68%

Complexity

86%

Confidentiality

106%

Artifex Ghostscript through 2017-04-26 allows -dSAFER bypass and remote command execution via .rsdparams type confusion with a "/OutputFile (%pipe%" substring in a crafted .eps document that is an input to the gs program, as exploited in the wild in April 2017.

Artifex Ghostscript through 2017-04-26 allows -dSAFER bypass and remote command execution via .rsdparams type confusion with a "/OutputFile (%pipe%" substring in a crafted .eps document that is an input to the gs program, as exploited in the wild in April 2017.

CVSS 3.0 Base Score 7.8. CVSS Attack Vector: local. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H).

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 6.8. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: medium. CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P).

Overview

First reported 7 years ago

2017-04-27 01:59:00

Last updated 7 years ago

2018-01-05 02:31:00

Affected Software

Artifex Ghostscript

References

http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/04/28/2

Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory

DSA-3838

98476

RHSA-2017:1230

https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=697808

Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1446063

Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1036453

Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry

https://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git;a=commit;h=04b37bbce174eed24edec7ad5b920eb93db4d47d

Patch, Vendor Advisory

GLSA-201708-06

41955

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