PublicDateAtUSN: 2017-07-26
Candidate: CVE-2017-9727
PublicDate: 2017-07-26 19:29:00 UTC
References:
 https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-9727
 https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3403-1
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.
Ubuntu-Description:
Notes:
Bugs:
 http://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=698056
Priority: medium
Discovered-by: Kim Gwan Yeong
Assigned-to: leosilva
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;a=commit;h=937ccd17ac65935633b2ebc06cb7089b91e17e6b
upstream_ghostscript: needed
precise/esm_ghostscript: DNE
trusty_ghostscript: released (9.10~dfsg-0ubuntu10.10)
trusty/esm_ghostscript: DNE (trusty was released [9.10~dfsg-0ubuntu10.10])
vivid/ubuntu-core_ghostscript: DNE
xenial_ghostscript: released (9.18~dfsg~0-0ubuntu2.7)
esm-infra/xenial_ghostscript: released (9.18~dfsg~0-0ubuntu2.7)
zesty_ghostscript: released (9.19~dfsg+1-0ubuntu7.6)
devel_ghostscript: released (9.21~dfsg+1-0ubuntu3)