| 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, ENISA, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Debian ELTS, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
| References | DLA-674-1, DSA-3691-1 |
| Debian Bugs | 840451 |
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| ghostscript (PTS) | bullseye | 9.53.3~dfsg-7+deb11u7 | fixed |
| bullseye (security) | 9.53.3~dfsg-7+deb11u11 | fixed | |
| bookworm | 10.0.0~dfsg-11+deb12u7 | fixed | |
| bookworm (security) | 10.0.0~dfsg-11+deb12u8 | fixed | |
| trixie | 10.05.1~dfsg-1 | fixed | |
| trixie (security) | 10.05.1~dfsg-1+deb13u1 | fixed | |
| forky | 10.05.1~dfsg-3 | fixed | |
| sid | 10.06.0~dfsg-3 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
| Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | 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