CVE-2017-9620

HighCVSS 7.8/10Last modified Jun 17, 2026

Description

The xps_select_font_encoding function in xps/xpsfont.c in Artifex Ghostscript GhostXPS 9.21 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (heap-based buffer over-read and application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted document, related to the xps_encode_font_char_imp function.

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=3ee55637480d5e319a5de0481b01c3346855cbc9
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/99990Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=698050Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201811-12Third Party Advisory
http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=3ee55637480d5e319a5de0481b01c3346855cbc9
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/99990Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=698050Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201811-12Third Party Advisory

Timeline

Published: Jul 26, 2017
Last modified: Jun 17, 2026
NVD status: Modified

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