CVE-2017-6196 — Use After Free in Afpl Ghostscript

CWE-416 — Use After Free8 documents7 sources
Severity
7.8HIGHNVD
EPSS
0.4%
top 42.45%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
2
Artifex GhostscriptArtifex Afpl Ghostscript
Timeline
PublishedFeb 24
Latest updateMay 17

Description

Multiple use-after-free vulnerabilities in the gx_image_enum_begin function in base/gxipixel.c in Ghostscript before ecceafe3abba2714ef9b432035fe0739d9b1a283 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted PostScript document.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HExploitability: 1.8 | Impact: 5.9

Affected Packages2 packages

▶Ubuntuartifex/ghostscript< 9.10~dfsg-0ubuntu10.6+1
▶NVDartifex/afpl_ghostscript8452f9238959a4d518af365812bf031fe4d8d4b7

Patches

Patch: bugs.ghostscript.com ↗Patch: bugs.ghostscript.com ↗

🔴Vulnerability Details

3
GHSA
GHSA-2ch2-m5qc-grp2: Multiple use-after-free vulnerabilities in the gx_image_enum_begin function in base/gxipixel↗2022-05-17
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OSV
CVE-2017-6196: Multiple use-after-free vulnerabilities in the gx_image_enum_begin function in base/gxipixel↗2017-02-24
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CVEList
CVE-2017-6196: Multiple use-after-free vulnerabilities in the gx_image_enum_begin function in base/gxipixel↗2017-02-24
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📋Vendor Advisories

2
Red Hat
ghostscript: Multiple use-after-free vulnerabilities in gx_image_enum_begin function↗2017-02-20
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Debian
CVE-2017-6196: ghostscript - Multiple use-after-free vulnerabilities in the gx_image_enum_begin function in b...↗2017
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💬Community

2
Bugzilla
CVE-2017-6196 ghostscript: Multiple use-after-free vulnerabilities in gx_image_enum_begin function [fedora-all]↗2017-02-28
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Bugzilla
CVE-2017-6196 ghostscript: Multiple use-after-free vulnerabilities in gx_image_enum_begin function↗2017-02-28
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