{"id":"USN-3272-1","summary":"ghostscript vulnerabilities","details":"It was discovered that Ghostscript improperly handled parameters to\nthe rsdparams and eqproc commands. An attacker could use these to\ncraft a malicious document that could disable -dSAFER protections,\nthereby allowing the execution of arbitrary code, or cause a denial\nof service (application crash). (CVE-2017-8291)\n\nKamil Frankowicz discovered a use-after-free vulnerability in the\ncolor management module of Ghostscript. An attacker could use this\nto cause a denial of service (application crash). (CVE-2016-10217)\n\nKamil Frankowicz discovered a divide-by-zero error in the scan\nconversion code in Ghostscript. An attacker could use this to cause\na denial of service (application crash). (CVE-2016-10219)\n\nKamil Frankowicz discovered multiple NULL pointer dereference errors in\nGhostscript. An attacker could use these to cause a denial of service\n(application crash). (CVE-2016-10220, CVE-2017-5951, CVE-2017-7207)\n","modified":"2026-02-10T04:41:07Z","published":"2017-04-28T06:17:18Z","related":["UBUNTU-CVE-2016-10217","UBUNTU-CVE-2016-10219","UBUNTU-CVE-2016-10220","UBUNTU-CVE-2017-5951","UBUNTU-CVE-2017-7207","UBUNTU-CVE-2017-8291"],"upstream":["CVE-2016-10217","CVE-2016-10219","CVE-2016-10220","CVE-2017-5951","CVE-2017-7207","CVE-2017-8291","UBUNTU-CVE-2016-10217","UBUNTU-CVE-2016-10219","UBUNTU-CVE-2016-10220","UBUNTU-CVE-2017-5951","UBUNTU-CVE-2017-7207","UBUNTU-CVE-2017-8291"],"references":[{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3272-1"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-10217"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-10219"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-10220"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-5951"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-7207"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-8291"}],"affected":[{"package":{"name":"ghostscript","ecosystem":"Ubuntu:14.04:LTS","purl":"pkg:deb/ubuntu/ghostscript@9.10~dfsg-0ubuntu10.7?arch=source&distro=trusty"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"9.10~dfsg-0ubuntu10.7"}]}],"versions":["9.10~dfsg-0ubuntu2","9.10~dfsg-0ubuntu3","9.10~dfsg-0ubuntu4","9.10~dfsg-0ubuntu5","9.10~dfsg-0ubuntu6","9.10~dfsg-0ubuntu7","9.10~dfsg-0ubuntu8","9.10~dfsg-0ubuntu9","9.10~dfsg-0ubuntu10","9.10~dfsg-0ubuntu10.1","9.10~dfsg-0ubuntu10.2","9.10~dfsg-0ubuntu10.3","9.10~dfsg-0ubuntu10.4","9.10~dfsg-0ubuntu10.5","9.10~dfsg-0ubuntu10.6"],"ecosystem_specific":{"binaries":[{"binary_name":"ghostscript","binary_version":"9.10~dfsg-0ubuntu10.7"},{"binary_name":"ghostscript-x","binary_version":"9.10~dfsg-0ubuntu10.7"},{"binary_name":"libgs-dev","binary_version":"9.10~dfsg-0ubuntu10.7"},{"binary_name":"libgs9","binary_version":"9.10~dfsg-0ubuntu10.7"},{"binary_name":"libgs9-common","binary_version":"9.10~dfsg-0ubuntu10.7"}],"availability":"No subscription required"},"database_specific":{"cves_map":{"cves":[{"id":"CVE-2016-10217","severity":[{"type":"CVSS_V3","score":"CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H"},{"type":"Ubuntu","score":"low"}]},{"id":"CVE-2016-10219","severity":[{"type":"CVSS_V3","score":"CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H"},{"type":"Ubuntu","score":"low"}]},{"id":"CVE-2016-10220","severity":[{"type":"CVSS_V3","score":"CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H"},{"type":"Ubuntu","score":"low"}]},{"id":"CVE-2017-5951","severity":[{"type":"CVSS_V3","score":"CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H"},{"type":"Ubuntu","score":"low"}]},{"id":"CVE-2017-7207","severity":[{"type":"CVSS_V3","score":"CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H"},{"type":"Ubuntu","score":"low"}]},{"id":"CVE-2017-8291","severity":[{"type":"CVSS_V3","score":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"},{"type":"CVSS_V3","score":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"},{"type":"CVSS_V3","score":"CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"},{"type":"Ubuntu","score":"high"}]}],"ecosystem":"Ubuntu:14.04:LTS"},"source":"https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/usn/USN-3272-1.json"}},{"package":{"name":"ghostscript","ecosystem":"Ubuntu:16.04:LTS","purl":"pkg:deb/ubuntu/ghostscript@9.18~dfsg~0-0ubuntu2.4?arch=source&distro=xenial"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"9.18~dfsg~0-0ubuntu2.4"}]}],"versions":["9.16~dfsg~0-0ubuntu3","9.16~dfsg~0-0ubuntu4","9.18~dfsg~0-0ubuntu1","9.18~dfsg~0-0ubuntu2","9.18~dfsg~0-0ubuntu2.2","9.18~dfsg~0-0ubuntu2.3"],"ecosystem_specific":{"binaries":[{"binary_name":"ghostscript","binary_version":"9.18~dfsg~0-0ubuntu2.4"},{"binary_name":"ghostscript-x","binary_version":"9.18~dfsg~0-0ubuntu2.4"},{"binary_name":"libgs-dev","binary_version":"9.18~dfsg~0-0ubuntu2.4"},{"binary_name":"libgs9","binary_version":"9.18~dfsg~0-0ubuntu2.4"},{"binary_name":"libgs9-common","binary_version":"9.18~dfsg~0-0ubuntu2.4"}],"availability":"No subscription required"},"database_specific":{"cves_map":{"cves":[{"id":"CVE-2016-10217","severity":[{"type":"CVSS_V3","score":"CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H"},{"type":"Ubuntu","score":"low"}]},{"id":"CVE-2016-10219","severity":[{"type":"CVSS_V3","score":"CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H"},{"type":"Ubuntu","score":"low"}]},{"id":"CVE-2016-10220","severity":[{"type":"CVSS_V3","score":"CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H"},{"type":"Ubuntu","score":"low"}]},{"id":"CVE-2017-5951","severity":[{"type":"CVSS_V3","score":"CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H"},{"type":"Ubuntu","score":"low"}]},{"id":"CVE-2017-7207","severity":[{"type":"CVSS_V3","score":"CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H"},{"type":"Ubuntu","score":"low"}]},{"id":"CVE-2017-8291","severity":[{"type":"CVSS_V3","score":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"},{"type":"CVSS_V3","score":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"},{"type":"CVSS_V3","score":"CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"},{"type":"Ubuntu","score":"high"}]}],"ecosystem":"Ubuntu:16.04:LTS"},"source":"https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/usn/USN-3272-1.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.7.3"}