CVE-2016-8602

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, bugtraq, EDB, Metasploit, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, Mageia, 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
ghostscript (PTS)	buster	9.27~dfsg-2+deb10u5	fixed
	buster (security)	9.27~dfsg-2+deb10u7	fixed
	bullseye (security), bullseye	9.53.3~dfsg-7+deb11u4	fixed
	bookworm, sid	10.0.0~dfsg-11	fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

Package	Type	Release	Fixed Version	Origin	Debian Bugs
ghostscript	source	wheezy	9.05~dfsg-6.3+deb7u3	DLA-674-1
ghostscript	source	jessie	9.06~dfsg-2+deb8u3	DSA-3691-1
ghostscript	source	(unstable)	9.19~dfsg-3.1		840451

http://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=697203
https://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git;a=commit;h=f5c7555c30393e64ec1f5ab0dfae5b55b3b3fc78