CVE-2016-8602

HighCVSS 7.8/10Last modified Jun 17, 2026

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.

Metrics

CVSS 3.0 7.8/10CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Weakness enumeration

CWE-704

Affected software

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	n/a

References

http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=f5c7555c303
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0013.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0014.html
http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3691
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/10/11/5Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/10/11/7Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95311Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=697203Issue Tracking, Patch
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1383940Issue Tracking, Patch
https://ghostscript.com/doc/9.21/History9.htmPatch, Vendor Advisory
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201702-31
http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=f5c7555c303
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0013.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0014.html
http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3691
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/10/11/5Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/10/11/7Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95311Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=697203Issue Tracking, Patch
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1383940Issue Tracking, Patch
https://ghostscript.com/doc/9.21/History9.htmPatch, Vendor Advisory
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201702-31

Timeline

Published: Apr 14, 2017
Last modified: Jun 17, 2026
NVD status: Modified

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