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ubuntucveUbuntu.comUB:CVE-2017-8291
HistoryApr 26, 2017 - 12:00 a.m.

CVE-2017-8291

2017-04-2600:00:00
ubuntu.com
ubuntu.com
29

7.8 High

CVSS3

Attack Vector

LOCAL

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction

REQUIRED

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

HIGH

Integrity Impact

HIGH

Availability Impact

HIGH

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

6.8 Medium

CVSS2

Access Vector

NETWORK

Access Complexity

MEDIUM

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

PARTIAL

Integrity Impact

PARTIAL

Availability Impact

PARTIAL

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

0.255 Low

EPSS

Percentile

96.7%

JSON

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.

Bugs

Notes

Author Note
sbeattie introduced regression (LP: #1687614); needs upstream commits 57f20719e1cfaea77b67cb26e26de7fe4d7f9b2e and ccfd2c75ac9be4cbd369e4cbdd40ba11a0c7bdad
OSVersionArchitecturePackageVersionFilename
ubuntu12.04noarchghostscript< 9.05~dfsg-0ubuntu4.5UNKNOWN
ubuntu14.04noarchghostscript< 9.10~dfsg-0ubuntu10.7UNKNOWN
ubuntu16.04noarchghostscript< 9.18~dfsg~0-0ubuntu2.4UNKNOWN
ubuntu16.10noarchghostscript< 9.19~dfsg+1-0ubuntu6.4UNKNOWN
ubuntu17.04noarchghostscript< 9.19~dfsg+1-0ubuntu7.2UNKNOWN

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7.8 High

CVSS3

Attack Vector

LOCAL

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction

REQUIRED

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

HIGH

Integrity Impact

HIGH

Availability Impact

HIGH

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

6.8 Medium

CVSS2

Access Vector

NETWORK

Access Complexity

MEDIUM

Authentication

NONE

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PARTIAL

Integrity Impact

PARTIAL

Availability Impact

PARTIAL

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

0.255 Low

EPSS

Percentile

96.7%

JSON
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