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High 1 exploited CVE USN-3272-1 6 CVEs

ghostscript vulnerabilities

Published Apr 28, 2017 · Updated Apr 22, 2026

Ecosystem: Ubuntu

Summary

It was discovered that Ghostscript improperly handled parameters to
the rsdparams and eqproc commands. An attacker could use these to
craft a malicious document that could disable -dSAFER protections,
thereby allowing the execution of arbitrary code, or cause a denial
of service (application crash). (CVE-2017-8291)

Kamil Frankowicz discovered a use-after-free vulnerability in the
color management module of Ghostscript. An attacker could use this
to cause a denial of service (application crash). (CVE-2016-10217)

Kamil Frankowicz discovered a divide-by-zero error in the scan
conversion code in Ghostscript. An attacker could use this to cause
a denial of service (application crash). (CVE-2016-10219)

Kamil Frankowicz discovered multiple NULL pointer dereference errors in
Ghostscript. An attacker could use these to cause a denial of service
(application crash). (CVE-2016-10220, CVE-2017-5951, CVE-2017-7207)

Fixed packages 2

ReleasePackageFixed in
Ubuntu · 14.04 LTS 14.04:LTS ghostscript 9.10~dfsg-0ubuntu10.7
Ubuntu · 16.04 LTS 16.04:LTS ghostscript 9.18~dfsg~0-0ubuntu2.4

Vulnerabilities 6

References

  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-10217
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-10219
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-10220
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-5951
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-7207
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-8291