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  • Committer: Steve Beattie
  • Date: 2019-02-19 06:18:27 UTC
  • Revision ID: sbeattie@ubuntu.com-20190219061827-oh57fzcfc1u9dlfk
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Candidate: CVE-2017-9620
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PublicDate: 2017-07-26
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References:
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 https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-9620
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Description:
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 The xps_select_font_encoding function in xps/xpsfont.c in Artifex
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 Ghostscript GhostXPS 9.21 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of
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 service (heap-based buffer over-read and application crash) or possibly
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 have unspecified other impact via a crafted document, related to the
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 xps_encode_font_char_imp function.
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Ubuntu-Description:
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Notes:
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 sarnold> Doublecheck if this breaks ABI (might be harmless)
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 leosilva> trusty and xenial hasn't xps code, so aren't affected
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 leosilva> zesty and artful aren't affected, xps code is not compiled
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Bugs:
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 https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=698050
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Priority: medium
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Discovered-by: Kim Gwan Yeong
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Assigned-to: leosilva
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Patches_ghostscript:
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 upstream: http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git;a=commit;h=3ee55637480d5e319a5de0481b01c3346855cbc9
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upstream_ghostscript: needed
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precise/esm_ghostscript: DNE
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trusty_ghostscript: not-affected (code not present)
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vivid/ubuntu-core_ghostscript: DNE
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xenial_ghostscript: not-affected (code not present)
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zesty_ghostscript: not-affected (code not compiled)
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devel_ghostscript: not-affected (code not compiled)