Name | CVE-2016-8602 |
Description | The .sethalftone5 function in psi/zht2.c in Ghostscript before 9.21 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted Postscript document that calls .sethalftone5 with an empty operand stack. |
Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
References | DLA-674-1, DSA-3691-1 |
Debian Bugs | 840451 |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
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ghostscript (PTS) | bullseye (security), bullseye | 9.53.3~dfsg-7+deb11u7 | fixed |
| bookworm | 10.0.0~dfsg-11+deb12u4 | fixed |
| bookworm (security) | 10.0.0~dfsg-11+deb12u5 | fixed |
| sid, trixie | 10.03.1~dfsg-2 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
Notes
http://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=697203
https://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git;a=commit;h=f5c7555c30393e64ec1f5ab0dfae5b55b3b3fc78