CVE-2017-8291

Publication date 26 April 2017

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

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.

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Status

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Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
ghostscript	17.04 zesty	Fixed 9.19~dfsg+1-0ubuntu7.2
	16.10 yakkety	Fixed 9.19~dfsg+1-0ubuntu6.4
	16.04 LTS xenial	Fixed 9.18~dfsg~0-0ubuntu2.4
	14.04 LTS trusty	Fixed 9.10~dfsg-0ubuntu10.7
	12.04 LTS precise	Fixed 9.05~dfsg-0ubuntu4.5

Notes

sbeattie

introduced regression (LP: #1687614); needs upstream commits 57f20719e1cfaea77b67cb26e26de7fe4d7f9b2e and ccfd2c75ac9be4cbd369e4cbdd40ba11a0c7bdad

Patch details

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Package	Patch details
ghostscript	Upstream: https://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git;a=commitdiff;h=4f83478c88 Upstream: https://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git;a=commitdiff;h=04b37bbce1

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	7.8 · High
Attack vector	Local
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	Required
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	High
Integrity impact	High
Availability impact	High
Vector	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

USN-3272-1
Ghostscript vulnerabilities
28 April 2017