CVE-2016-8602

Description

The .sethalftone5 function in psi/zht2.c in Ghostscript before 9.21 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted Postscript document that calls .sethalftone5 with an empty operand stack.

References

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201702-31

https://ghostscript.com/doc/9.21/History9.htm

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1383940

https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=697203

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95311

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/10/11/7

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/10/11/5

http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3691

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0014.html

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0013.html

http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=f5c7555c303

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3