UBUNTU-CVE-2017-11714

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Source
https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-11714
Import Source
https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2017/UBUNTU-CVE-2017-11714.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/UBUNTU-CVE-2017-11714
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Published
2017-07-28T00:00:00Z
Modified
2025-09-08T16:44:20Z
Severity
  • 7.8 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
  • Ubuntu - medium
Summary
[none]
Details

psi/ztoken.c in Artifex Ghostscript 9.21 mishandles references to the scanner state structure, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted PostScript document, related to an out-of-bounds read in the igcrelocstruct_ptr function in psi/igc.c.

References

Affected packages

Ubuntu:14.04:LTS / ghostscript

Package

Name
ghostscript
Purl
pkg:deb/ubuntu/ghostscript@9.10~dfsg-0ubuntu10.10?arch=source&distro=trusty

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
9.10~dfsg-0ubuntu10.10

Affected versions

9.*

9.10~dfsg-0ubuntu2
9.10~dfsg-0ubuntu3
9.10~dfsg-0ubuntu4
9.10~dfsg-0ubuntu5
9.10~dfsg-0ubuntu6
9.10~dfsg-0ubuntu7
9.10~dfsg-0ubuntu8
9.10~dfsg-0ubuntu9
9.10~dfsg-0ubuntu10
9.10~dfsg-0ubuntu10.1
9.10~dfsg-0ubuntu10.2
9.10~dfsg-0ubuntu10.3
9.10~dfsg-0ubuntu10.4
9.10~dfsg-0ubuntu10.5
9.10~dfsg-0ubuntu10.6
9.10~dfsg-0ubuntu10.7
9.10~dfsg-0ubuntu10.9

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_version": "9.10~dfsg-0ubuntu10.10",
            "binary_name": "ghostscript"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "9.10~dfsg-0ubuntu10.10",
            "binary_name": "ghostscript-x"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "9.10~dfsg-0ubuntu10.10",
            "binary_name": "libgs-dev"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "9.10~dfsg-0ubuntu10.10",
            "binary_name": "libgs9"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "9.10~dfsg-0ubuntu10.10",
            "binary_name": "libgs9-common"
        }
    ],
    "availability": "No subscription required"
}

Ubuntu:16.04:LTS / ghostscript

Package

Name
ghostscript
Purl
pkg:deb/ubuntu/ghostscript@9.18~dfsg~0-0ubuntu2.7?arch=source&distro=xenial

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
9.18~dfsg~0-0ubuntu2.7

Affected versions

9.*

9.16~dfsg~0-0ubuntu3
9.16~dfsg~0-0ubuntu4
9.18~dfsg~0-0ubuntu1
9.18~dfsg~0-0ubuntu2
9.18~dfsg~0-0ubuntu2.2
9.18~dfsg~0-0ubuntu2.3
9.18~dfsg~0-0ubuntu2.4
9.18~dfsg~0-0ubuntu2.6

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_version": "9.18~dfsg~0-0ubuntu2.7",
            "binary_name": "ghostscript"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "9.18~dfsg~0-0ubuntu2.7",
            "binary_name": "ghostscript-x"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "9.18~dfsg~0-0ubuntu2.7",
            "binary_name": "libgs-dev"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "9.18~dfsg~0-0ubuntu2.7",
            "binary_name": "libgs9"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "9.18~dfsg~0-0ubuntu2.7",
            "binary_name": "libgs9-common"
        }
    ],
    "availability": "No subscription required"
}