CVE-2017-9620 — Out-of-bounds Read in Ghostscript Ghostxps

CWE-125 — Out-of-bounds ReadCWE-122 — Heap-based Buffer Overflow8 documents7 sources
Severity
7.8HIGHNVD
EPSS
0.7%
top 28.70%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
2
Artifex GhostscriptArtifex Ghostscript Ghostxps
Timeline
PublishedJul 26
Latest updateMay 13

Description

The xps_select_font_encoding function in xps/xpsfont.c in Artifex Ghostscript GhostXPS 9.21 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (heap-based buffer over-read and application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted document, related to the xps_encode_font_char_imp function.

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

▶Debianartifex/ghostscript< 9.22~dfsg-1+3

🔴Vulnerability Details

3
GHSA
GHSA-8j2f-g4hm-hmp8: The xps_select_font_encoding function in xps/xpsfont↗2022-05-13
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CVEList
CVE-2017-9620: The xps_select_font_encoding function in xps/xpsfont↗2017-07-26
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OSV
CVE-2017-9620: The xps_select_font_encoding function in xps/xpsfont↗2017-07-26
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📋Vendor Advisories

2
Red Hat
ghostscript: Heap-buffer over-read in the xps_select_font_encoding function↗2017-06-13
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Debian
CVE-2017-9620: ghostscript - The xps_select_font_encoding function in xps/xpsfont.c in Artifex Ghostscript Gh...↗2017
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💬Community

2
Bugzilla
CVE-2017-9610 CVE-2017-9611 CVE-2017-9612 CVE-2017-9618 CVE-2017-9619 CVE-2017-9620 CVE-2017-9726 CVE-2017-9727 CVE-2017-9739 CVE-2017-9740 CVE-2017-9835 ghostscript: various flaws [fedora-all]↗2017-07-27
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Bugzilla
CVE-2017-9620 ghostscript: Heap-buffer over-read in the xps_select_font_encoding function↗2017-07-27
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CVE-2017-9620 — Out-of-bounds Read | cvebase