| Name | CVE-2017-8291 |
| Description | Artifex Ghostscript through 2017-04-26 allows -dSAFER bypass and remote command execution via .rsdparams type confusion with a "/OutputFile (%pipe%" substring in a crafted .eps document that is an input to the gs program, as exploited in the wild in April 2017. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Debian ELTS, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
| References | DLA-932-1, DSA-3838-1 |
| Debian Bugs | 861295 |
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+deb11u10 | fixed | |
| bookworm, bookworm (security) | 10.0.0~dfsg-11+deb12u7 | fixed | |
| trixie | 10.05.1~dfsg-1 | 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+deb7u6 | DLA-932-1 | ||
| ghostscript | source | jessie | 9.06~dfsg-2+deb8u5 | DSA-3838-1 | ||
| ghostscript | source | (unstable) | 9.20~dfsg-3.1 | 861295 |
https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=697808 (duplicate of 697799)
https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=697799 (made private)
Full report viewable at: https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1036453
Fixed by: https://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git;a=commit;h=04b37bbce174eed24edec7ad5b920eb93db4d47d
Fixed by: https://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git;a=commit;h=4f83478c88c2e05d6e8d79ca4557eb039354d2f3