High severity7.8NVD Advisory· Published Jul 28, 2017· Updated Jun 17, 2026
CVE-2017-11714
CVE-2017-11714
Description
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 igc_reloc_struct_ptr function in psi/igc.c.
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Affected products
16cpe:2.3:a:artifex:ghostscript:9.21:*:*:*:*:*:*:*+ 1 more
- cpe:2.3:a:artifex:ghostscript:9.21:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- (no CPE)range: =9.21
- osv-coords12 versionspkg:rpm/suse/ghostscript&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Desktop%2012%20SP2pkg:rpm/suse/ghostscript&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Desktop%2012%20SP3pkg:rpm/suse/ghostscript&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2012%20SP2pkg:rpm/suse/ghostscript&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2012%20SP3pkg:rpm/suse/ghostscript&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%20for%20Raspberry%20Pi%2012%20SP2pkg:rpm/suse/ghostscript&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%20for%20SAP%20Applications%2012%20SP2pkg:rpm/suse/ghostscript&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%20for%20SAP%20Applications%2012%20SP3pkg:rpm/suse/ghostscript&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Software%20Development%20Kit%2012%20SP2pkg:rpm/suse/ghostscript&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Software%20Development%20Kit%2012%20SP3pkg:rpm/suse/ghostscript-library&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2011%20SP4pkg:rpm/suse/ghostscript-library&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%20for%20SAP%20Applications%2011%20SP4pkg:rpm/suse/ghostscript-library&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Software%20Development%20Kit%2011%20SP4
< 9.15-23.7.1+ 11 more
- (no CPE)range: < 9.15-23.7.1
- (no CPE)range: < 9.15-23.7.1
- (no CPE)range: < 9.15-23.7.1
- (no CPE)range: < 9.15-23.7.1
- (no CPE)range: < 9.15-23.7.1
- (no CPE)range: < 9.15-23.7.1
- (no CPE)range: < 9.15-23.7.1
- (no CPE)range: < 9.15-23.7.1
- (no CPE)range: < 9.15-23.7.1
- (no CPE)range: < 8.62-32.47.7.1
- (no CPE)range: < 8.62-32.47.7.1
- (no CPE)range: < 8.62-32.47.7.1
Patches
Vulnerability mechanics
References
5- bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cginvdIssue TrackingPatchThird Party Advisory
- www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3986nvdThird Party Advisory
- www.securitytracker.com/id/1039233nvdThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
- security.gentoo.org/glsa/201811-12nvdThird Party Advisory
- git.ghostscript.comnvd
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