CVE-2017-8291
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CVE Details
| Release Date: | 2017-04-26 | |
| Impact: | Important | What is this? |
Description
Artifex Ghostscript through 2017-04-26 allows -dSAFER bypass andremote 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.
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NOTE: The following CVSS metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.
CVSS v2 metrics
| Base Score: | 6.8 |
| Vector String: | AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P |
| Version: | 2.0 |
| Attack Vector: | Network |
| Attack Complexity: | Medium |
| Authentication: | None |
| Confidentiality Impact: | Partial |
| Integrity Impact: | Partial |
| Availability Impact: | Partial |
Errata information
| Platform | Errata | Release Date |
| Oracle Linux version 6 (ghostscript) | ELSA-2017-1230 | 2017-05-12 |
| Oracle Linux version 7 (ghostscript) | ELSA-2017-1230 | 2017-05-12 |
| Oracle VM version 3.3 (ghostscript) | OVMSA-2017-0103 | 2017-05-12 |
| Oracle VM version 3.4 (ghostscript) | OVMSA-2017-0103 | 2017-05-12 |
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