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CVE-2017-11714

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2017-07-28 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-125

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.

Affected products

• Artifex Ghostscript: 9.21
• Debian Linux: 8.0, 9.0

References

• http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=671fd59eb657743aa86fbc1895cb15872a317caa
• http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3986
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1039233
• https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=698158
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201811-12
• http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=671fd59eb657743aa86fbc1895cb15872a317caa
• http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3986
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1039233
• https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=698158
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201811-12

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