Vulnerabilities > CVE-2017-9611 - Out-of-bounds Read vulnerability in multiple products
Attack vector
LOCAL Attack complexity
LOW Privileges required
NONE Confidentiality impact
HIGH Integrity impact
HIGH Availability impact
HIGH Summary
The Ins_MIRP function in base/ttinterp.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.
Vulnerable Configurations
| Part | Description | Count |
|---|---|---|
| Application | 1 | |
| OS | 2 |
Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)
Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)
- Overread Buffers An adversary attacks a target by providing input that causes an application to read beyond the boundary of a defined buffer. This typically occurs when a value influencing where to start or stop reading is set to reflect positions outside of the valid memory location of the buffer. This type of attack may result in exposure of sensitive information, a system crash, or arbitrary code execution.
Nessus
NASL family Huawei Local Security Checks NASL id EULEROS_SA-2020-1306.NASL description According to the version of the ghostscript packages installed, the EulerOS installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerability : - The Ins_MIRP function in base/ttinterp.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.(CVE-2017-9611) Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the EulerOS security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues. last seen 2020-05-06 modified 2020-03-23 plugin id 134797 published 2020-03-23 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/134797 title EulerOS 2.0 SP5 : ghostscript (EulerOS-SA-2020-1306) NASL family Huawei Local Security Checks NASL id EULEROS_SA-2020-1549.NASL description According to the versions of the ghostscript package installed, the EulerOS Virtualization for ARM 64 installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerabilities : - In Artifex Ghostscript before 9.26, a carefully crafted PDF file can trigger an extremely long running computation when parsing the file.(CVE-2018-19478) - In ghostscript before version 9.50, the .buildfont1 procedure did not properly secure its privileged calls, enabling scripts to bypass `-dSAFER` restrictions. An attacker could abuse this flaw by creating a specially crafted PostScript file that could escalate privileges and access files outside of restricted areas.(CVE-2019-10216) - The Ins_MIRP function in base/ttinterp.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.(CVE-2017-9611) Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the EulerOS security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues. last seen 2020-05-08 modified 2020-05-01 plugin id 136252 published 2020-05-01 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/136252 title EulerOS Virtualization for ARM 64 3.0.2.0 : ghostscript (EulerOS-SA-2020-1549) NASL family Gentoo Local Security Checks NASL id GENTOO_GLSA-201811-12.NASL description The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-201811-12 (GPL Ghostscript: Multiple vulnerabilities) Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in GPL Ghostscript. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for additional information. Impact : A context-dependent attacker could entice a user to open a specially crafted PostScript file or PDF document using GPL Ghostscript possibly resulting in the execution of arbitrary code with the privileges of the process, a Denial of Service condition, or other unspecified impacts, Workaround : There is no known workaround at this time. last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 119132 published 2018-11-26 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2018-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/119132 title GLSA-201811-12 : GPL Ghostscript: Multiple vulnerabilities NASL family Debian Local Security Checks NASL id DEBIAN_DSA-3986.NASL description Several vulnerabilities were discovered in Ghostscript, the GPL PostScript/PDF interpreter, which may result in denial of service if a specially crafted Postscript file is processed. last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 103578 published 2017-10-02 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2017-2018 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/103578 title Debian DSA-3986-1 : ghostscript - security update NASL family SuSE Local Security Checks NASL id SUSE_SU-2018-3330-1.NASL description This update for ghostscript-library fixes the following issues : CVE-2018-16511: A type confusion in last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 118350 published 2018-10-24 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2018-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/118350 title SUSE SLES11 Security Update : ghostscript-library (SUSE-SU-2018:3330-1) NASL family Ubuntu Local Security Checks NASL id UBUNTU_USN-3403-1.NASL description Kamil Frankowicz discovered that Ghostscript mishandles references. A remote attacker could use this to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2017-11714) Kim Gwan Yeong discovered that Ghostscript could allow a heap-based buffer over-read and application crash. A remote attacker could use a crafted document to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2017-9611, CVE-2017-9726, CVE-2017-9727, CVE-2017-9739) Kim Gwan Yeong discovered an use-after-free vulnerability in Ghostscript. A remote attacker could use a crafted file to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2017-9612) Kim Gwan Yeong discovered a lack of integer overflow check in Ghostscript. A remote attacker could use crafted PostScript document to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2017-9835). Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues. last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 102815 published 2017-08-29 reporter Ubuntu Security Notice (C) 2017-2019 Canonical, Inc. / NASL script (C) 2017-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/102815 title Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS / 17.04 : ghostscript vulnerabilities (USN-3403-1) NASL family Debian Local Security Checks NASL id DEBIAN_DLA-1048.NASL description Several issues were found in Ghostscript, the GPL PostScript/PDF interpreter, which allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (heap-based buffer overflow and application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted PostScript document. For Debian 7 last seen 2020-03-17 modified 2017-08-02 plugin id 102096 published 2017-08-02 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2017-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/102096 title Debian DLA-1048-1 : ghostscript security update