CVE-2017-11714

7.8 highEPSS 2.3%

High (7.8). EPSS 2.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Severity

CVSS 3.0

7.8 high

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

EPSS: 2.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 83% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE: CWE-125
Published: 2017-07-28
Modified: 2026-06-17
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

Affected

artifex:ghostscript
debian:debian_linux

References

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

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