CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2017-8291

Incorrect Type Conversion or Cast

Published: Apr 27, 2017 | Modified: Nov 07, 2023
CVSS 3.x
7.8
HIGH
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.x
6.8 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

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.

Weakness

The product does not correctly convert an object, resource, or structure from one type to a different type.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Ghostscript Artifex * 9.21 (including)

References