CVE-2017-6196 — Vulnetix

CVE-2017-6196 REJECTED

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.

EPSS 0.35% · 57.8th percentile

Risk Scores

EPSS Score

0.35%

57.8th percentile

Affected Products

Vendor	Product	Versions
Ubuntu:16.04:LTS	ghostscript	0, 9.16~dfsg~0-0ubuntu3, 9.16~dfsg~0-0ubuntu4
Ubuntu:14.04:LTS	ghostscript	0, 9.10~dfsg-0ubuntu2, 9.10~dfsg-0ubuntu3

Exploit Intelligence

1037899 (circl)
96428 (circl)
http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Bh=ecceafe3abba2714ef9b432035fe0739d9b1a283 (circl)
GLSA-201708-06 (circl)
https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=697596 (circl)

Timeline

Feb 24, 2017 CVE Published
Apr 14, 2021 EPSS Score
Jun 23, 2021 EPSS Score
Aug 24, 2021 EPSS Score
Oct 26, 2021 EPSS Score
Dec 27, 2021 EPSS Score
Feb 4, 2022 EPSS Score
Feb 28, 2022 EPSS Score
May 2, 2022 EPSS Score
Sep 5, 2022 EPSS Score
Nov 6, 2022 EPSS Score
Jan 8, 2023 EPSS Score

References

https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-6196 third-party-advisory
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-6196 third-party-advisory

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