ubuntu · CVE-2017-8291

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Priority: high Published: 2017-04-26 00:00:00 UTC Updated: 2025-08-25 22:39:48 UTC

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Tracker summary

CVE-2017-8291 high priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (ghostscript), 6 status rows across 6 suites (precise, trusty, upstream, xenial, yakkety, zesty): released 5, needs-triage 1.

Description:

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.

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