Bug 1434353 – CVE-2017-7207 ghostscript: NULL pointer dereference in mem_get_bits_rectangle()

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Bug 1434353 - (CVE-2017-7207) CVE-2017-7207 ghostscript: NULL pointer dereference in mem_get_bits_rectangle()

Summary:	CVE-2017-7207 ghostscript: NULL pointer dereference in mem_get_bits_rectangle()

Status:	NEW

Aliases:	CVE-2017-7207

Product:	Security Response
Classification:	Other
Component:	vulnerability (Show other bugs)
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Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All Linux

Priority	low Severity low
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Keywords:	Security

Depends On:	1434497 1435546
Blocks:	1415638 1434354
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Reported:	2017-03-21 06:42 EDT by Adam Mariš
Modified:	2018-10-31 21:29 EDT (History)
CC List:	6 users (show)

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Doc Text:	A NULL pointer dereference flaw was found in ghostscript's mem_get_bits_rectangle function. A specially crafted postscript document could cause a crash in the context of the gs process.
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Tracker	ID	Priority	Status	Summary	Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata	RHSA-2017:2180	normal	SHIPPED_LIVE	Low: ghostscript security and bug fix update	2017-08-01 15:40:55 EDT

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Description Adam Mariš 2017-03-21 06:42:23 EDT

A null pointer vulnerability was found in mem_get_bits_rectangle() when trying to read from unallocated memory.

Upstream bug:

https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=697676

Upstream patch:

http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git;h=309eca4e0a31ea70dcc844812691439312dad091

Comment 1 David Kaspar [Dee'Kej] 2017-03-21 10:53:09 EDT

Hello Adam,

will you be creating a BZ for this in Fedora as well, or should I clone it? I'm currently waiting for it.

Best regards,

Dee'Kej

Comment 2 Adam Mariš 2017-03-21 11:46:19 EDT

Created ghostscript tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1434497]

Comment 3 Adam Mariš 2017-03-21 11:47:54 EDT

(In reply to David Kaspar [Dee'Kej] from comment #1)
> Hello Adam,
> 
> will you be creating a BZ for this in Fedora as well, or should I clone it?
> I'm currently waiting for it.
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Dee'Kej

Hi David,

Sorry, forgot to create it. It's done now. Thanks for noticing!

Comment 8 errata-xmlrpc 2017-08-01 19:06:00 EDT

This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

Via RHSA-2017:2180 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2180

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