| Name | CVE-2017-9610 |
| Description | The xps_load_sfnt_name function in xps/xpsfont.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. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, bugtraq, EDB, Metasploit, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, Mageia, GitHub code/issues, web search, more) |
| NVD severity | medium (attack range: remote) |
| Debian Bugs | 869879 |
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| ghostscript (PTS) | jessie | 9.06~dfsg-2+deb8u7 | fixed |
| jessie (security) | 9.26a~dfsg-0+deb8u1 | fixed | |
| stretch | 9.26a~dfsg-0+deb9u1 | fixed | |
| stretch (security) | 9.26a~dfsg-0+deb9u2 | fixed | |
| buster, sid | 9.27~dfsg-1 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
| Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ghostscript | source | (unstable) | 9.22~dfsg-1 | unimportant | 869879 | |
| ghostscript | source | jessie | (not affected) | |||
| ghostscript | source | wheezy | (not affected) |
[jessie] - ghostscript <not-affected> (Vulnerable code not present)
[wheezy] - ghostscript <not-affected> (Vulnerable code not present)
The Debian binary package is not affected xps/ not used
https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=698025
http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git;a=commit;h=d2ab84732936b6e7e5a461dc94344902965e9a06