Bug 1475836 (CVE-2017-9740)

Summary: CVE-2017-9740 ghostscript: Heap-buffer over-read in the xps_decode_font_char_imp function
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: Andrej Nemec <anemec>
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Description Andrej Nemec 2017-07-27 12:56:04 UTC
The xps_decode_font_char_imp function in xps/xpsfont.c in Artifex Ghostscript GhostXPS 9.22 allows 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.

Upstream patch:

http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git;a=commit;h=961b10cdd71403072fb99401a45f3bef6ce53626

Upstream issue:

https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=698064

Comment 1 Andrej Nemec 2017-07-27 13:01:04 UTC
Created ghostscript tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1475838]