CVE-2017-9727

Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2017-07-26 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-125

Description

The gx_ttfReader__Read function in base/gxttfb.c in Artifex Ghostscript GhostXPS 9.21 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (heap-based buffer over-read and application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted document.

Affected products

Artifex Ghostscript Ghostxps: 9.21
Debian Linux: 8.0, 9.0

References

http://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=698056
http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=937ccd17ac65935633b2ebc06cb7089b91e17e6b
http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3986
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/99999
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201811-12
http://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=698056
http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=937ccd17ac65935633b2ebc06cb7089b91e17e6b
http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3986
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/99999
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201811-12

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