Bug 1441568 (CVE-2016-10218) - CVE-2016-10218 ghostscript: NULL pointer dereference in the pfd14_pop_transparency_group function
Summary: CVE-2016-10218 ghostscript: NULL pointer dereference in the pfd14_pop_transpa...
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: CVE-2016-10218
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1441581
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2017-04-12 08:49 UTC by Andrej Nemec
Modified: 2019-09-29 14:09 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2017-04-12 11:36:15 UTC
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Description Andrej Nemec 2017-04-12 08:49:18 UTC 
The pdf14_pop_transparency_group function in base/gdevp14.c in the PDF Transparency module in Artifex Software, Inc. Ghostscript allows attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and application crash) via a crafted file. 

Upstream patch:

http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git;a=commit;h=d621292fb2c8157d9899dcd83fd04dd250e30fe4

Upstream bug:

https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=697444
Comment 1 Andrej Nemec 2017-04-12 09:01:11 UTC 
Created ghostscript tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1441581]
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