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CVE-2017-7948

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2017-04-19 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-190

Description

Integer overflow in the mark_curve function in Artifex Ghostscript 9.21 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds write and application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted PostScript document.

Affected products

• Artifex Ghostscript: 9.21

References

• http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Bh=8210a2864372723b49c526e2b102fdc00c9c4699
• https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=697762
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201811-12
• http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Bh=8210a2864372723b49c526e2b102fdc00c9c4699
• https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=697762
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201811-12

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