Candidate: CVE-2017-6196
PublicDate: 2017-02-24 04:59:00 UTC
References:
 https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-6196
Description:
 Multiple use-after-free vulnerabilities in the gx_image_enum_begin function
 in base/gxipixel.c in Ghostscript before
 ecceafe3abba2714ef9b432035fe0739d9b1a283 allow remote attackers to cause a
 denial of service (application crash) or possibly have unspecified other
 impact via a crafted PostScript document.
Ubuntu-Description:
Notes:
 sbeattie> PoC in bug report
 mdeslaur> introduced by http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git;h=cffb5712bc10c2c2f46adf311fc74aaae74cb784
Bugs:
 https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=697596
 https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=856142
Priority: medium
Discovered-by:
Assigned-to:
CVSS:
 nvd: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H [7.8 HIGH]

Patches_ghostscript:
 upstream: http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git;h=ecceafe3abba2714ef9b432035fe0739d9b1a283
upstream_ghostscript: needs-triage
precise_ghostscript: not-affected (9.05~dfsg-0ubuntu4.4)
trusty_ghostscript: not-affected (9.10~dfsg-0ubuntu10.6)
trusty/esm_ghostscript: DNE (trusty was not-affected [9.10~dfsg-0ubuntu10.6])
vivid/stable-phone-overlay_ghostscript: DNE
vivid/ubuntu-core_ghostscript: DNE
xenial_ghostscript: not-affected (9.18~dfsg~0-0ubuntu2.3)
esm-infra/xenial_ghostscript: not-affected (9.18~dfsg~0-0ubuntu2.3)
yakkety_ghostscript: not-affected (9.19~dfsg+1-0ubuntu6.3)
devel_ghostscript: not-affected (9.19~dfsg+1-0ubuntu7.1)