CVE-2016-8602 (GCVE-0-2016-8602)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2017-04-14 18:00
Modified
2024-08-06 02:27
Severity ?
CWE
  • n/a
Summary
The .sethalftone5 function in psi/zht2.c in Ghostscript before 9.21 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted Postscript document that calls .sethalftone5 with an empty operand stack.
References
cve@mitre.org http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=f5c7555c303
cve@mitre.org http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0013.html
cve@mitre.org http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0014.html
cve@mitre.org http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3691
cve@mitre.org http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/10/11/5 Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.org http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/10/11/7 Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.org http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95311 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
cve@mitre.org https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=697203 Issue Tracking, Patch
cve@mitre.org https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1383940 Issue Tracking, Patch
cve@mitre.org https://ghostscript.com/doc/9.21/History9.htm Patch, Vendor Advisory
cve@mitre.org https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201702-31
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=f5c7555c303
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0013.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0014.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3691
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/10/11/5 Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/10/11/7 Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95311 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=697203 Issue Tracking, Patch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1383940 Issue Tracking, Patch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 https://ghostscript.com/doc/9.21/History9.htm Patch, Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201702-31
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
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