Bug 1441575 (CVE-2016-10317) - CVE-2016-10317 ghostscript: Heap-buffer overflow in the fill_threshold_buffer function
Summary: CVE-2016-10317 ghostscript: Heap-buffer overflow in the fill_threshold_buffer...
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: CVE-2016-10317
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
Blocks: 1441579
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Reported: 2017-04-12 08:57 UTC by Andrej Nemec
Modified: 2019-09-29 14:09 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2018-03-06 19:06:53 UTC
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Description Andrej Nemec 2017-04-12 08:57:45 UTC 
The fill_threshhold_buffer function in base/gxht_thresh.c in Artifex Software, Inc. Ghostscript allows attackers to cause a denial of service (heap-based buffer overflow and application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted PostScript document.

Upstream bug:

https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=697459
Comment 1 Andrej Nemec 2017-04-12 09:02:06 UTC 
Created ghostscript tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1441581]
Comment 2 David Kaspar // Dee'Kej 2017-04-27 13:08:19 UTC 
NOTE: We're still waiting on upstream to provide a patch for this CVE.
Comment 4 Cedric Buissart 2018-03-06 17:10:06 UTC 
Upstream fix : 
 - Fix bug 697459 Buffer overflow in fill_threshold_buffer
http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git;a=commit;h=362ec9daadb9992b0def3520cd1dc6fa52edd1c4
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