CVE-2007-6725 — Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer in Ghostscript

CWE-119 — Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer8 documents8 sources
Severity
7.5HIGHNVD
EPSS
6.2%
top 9.14%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
2
Artifex GhostscriptGhostscript
Timeline
PublishedApr 8
Latest updateMay 1

Description

The CCITTFax decoding filter in Ghostscript 8.60, 8.61, and possibly other versions, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted PDF file that triggers a buffer underflow in the cf_decode_2d function.

CVSS vector

AV:N/AC:L/C:P/I:P/A:PExploitability: 10.0 | Impact: 6.4

Affected Packages2 packages

▶Debianartifex/ghostscript< 8.63.dfsg.1-1+3

🔴Vulnerability Details

3
GHSA
GHSA-pv3g-wrcf-hmrv: The CCITTFax decoding filter in Ghostscript 8↗2022-05-01
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CVEList
CVE-2007-6725: The CCITTFax decoding filter in Ghostscript 8↗2009-04-08
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OSV
CVE-2007-6725: The CCITTFax decoding filter in Ghostscript 8↗2009-04-08
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📋Vendor Advisories

3
Ubuntu
Ghostscript vulnerabilities↗2009-04-15
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Red Hat
ghostscript: DoS (crash) in CCITTFax decoding filter↗2007-02-19
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Debian
CVE-2007-6725: ghostscript - The CCITTFax decoding filter in Ghostscript 8.60, 8.61, and possibly other versi...↗2007
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💬Community

1
Bugzilla
CVE-2007-6725 ghostscript: DoS (crash) in CCITTFax decoding filter↗2009-04-01
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CVE-2007-6725 — Ghostscript vulnerability | cvebase