UBUNTU-CVE-2017-8291

    Dashboard / Vulnerabilities / UBUNTU-CVE-2017-8291

    UBUNTU-CVE-2017-8291

    Published: 26 Apr 2017Last Modified: 22 Apr 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2017-8291
    Aliases:
    USN-3272-1

    Summary:

    Details: Artifex Ghostscript through 2017-04-26 allows -dSAFER bypass and remote command execution via .rsdparams type confusion with a "/OutputFile (%pipe%" substring in a crafted .eps document that is an input to the gs program, as exploited in the wild in April 2017.

    References: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-8291, https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=697808, https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=697799, http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/04/27/10, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3272-1, https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-8291, https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: ghostscript

    Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/[email protected]~dfsg-0ubuntu10.7?arch=source&distro=trusty

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -9.10~dfsg-0ubuntu10.7

    Affected versions

    9.10~dfsg-0ubuntu2

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High