CVE-2017-11714
mediumpriority · track · 32EPSS 0.023 · 83 %ileEUUSEPSS · scored 2026-10-27
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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base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode⚠ sources disagree · medium–high · 6.8–7.8
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affected products (4)
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references (15)
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- http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git;a=commit;h=671fd59eb657743aa86fbc1895cb15872a317caacnnvd
- http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3986cnnvd
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1039233cnnvd
- https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=698158cnnvd
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201811-12cnnvd
- http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=671fd59eb657743aa86fbc1895cb15872a317caaenisa_euvd
- http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3986enisa_euvd
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1039233enisa_euvd
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