CVE-2017-11714

HighCVSS 7.8/10Last modified Jun 17, 2026

Description

psi/ztoken.c in Artifex Ghostscript 9.21 mishandles references to the scanner state structure, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted PostScript document, related to an out-of-bounds read in the igc_reloc_struct_ptr function in psi/igc.c.

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-125

Affected software

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

References

http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=671fd59eb657743aa86fbc1895cb15872a317caa
http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3986Third Party Advisory
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1039233Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=698158Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201811-12Third Party Advisory
http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=671fd59eb657743aa86fbc1895cb15872a317caa
http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3986Third Party Advisory
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1039233Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=698158Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201811-12Third Party Advisory

Timeline

Published: Jul 28, 2017
Last modified: Jun 17, 2026
NVD status: Modified

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