FKIE_CVE-2017-8291

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2017-04-27 01:59 - Updated: 2026-06-17 01:26
Severity
7.8 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
7.8 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Summary
Artifex Ghostscript through 2017-04-26 allows -dSAFER bypass and remote command execution via .rsdparams type confusion with a "/OutputFile (%pipe%" substring in a crafted .eps document that is an input to the gs program, as exploited in the wild in April 2017.
References
cve@mitre.orghttp://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/04/28/2Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3838Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/98476Broken Link, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
cve@mitre.orghttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1230Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=697808Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
cve@mitre.orghttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1446063Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
cve@mitre.orghttps://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1036453Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
cve@mitre.orghttps://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=04b37bbce174eed24edec7ad5b920eb93db4d47dBroken Link
cve@mitre.orghttps://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201708-06Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/41955/Exploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/04/28/2Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3838Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/98476Broken Link, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1230Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=697808Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1446063Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1036453Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=04b37bbce174eed24edec7ad5b920eb93db4d47dBroken Link
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201708-06Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/41955/Exploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2017-8291US Government Resource
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
artifex ghostscript *
debian debian_linux 8.0
redhat enterprise_linux_desktop 6.0
redhat enterprise_linux_desktop 7.0
redhat enterprise_linux_eus 7.3
redhat enterprise_linux_eus 7.4
redhat enterprise_linux_eus 7.5
redhat enterprise_linux_eus 7.6
redhat enterprise_linux_eus 7.7
redhat enterprise_linux_server 6.0
redhat enterprise_linux_server 7.0
redhat enterprise_linux_server_aus 7.3
redhat enterprise_linux_server_aus 7.4
redhat enterprise_linux_server_aus 7.6
redhat enterprise_linux_server_aus 7.7
redhat enterprise_linux_server_tus 7.3
redhat enterprise_linux_server_tus 7.6
redhat enterprise_linux_server_tus 7.7
redhat enterprise_linux_workstation 6.0
redhat enterprise_linux_workstation 7.0
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