CVE-2016-8602

Public on 2017-01-10
Modified on 2017-01-10
Description
It was found that ghostscript did not sufficiently check the validity of parameters given to the .sethalftone5 function. A specially crafted postscript document could cause a crash, or execute arbitrary code in the context of the gs process.
Severity
Medium severity
Medium
CVSS v3 Base Score
5.8
See breakdown

Affected Packages

Platform Package Release Date Advisory Status
Amazon Linux 1 ghostscript 2017-01-10 ALAS-2017-784 Fixed

CVSS Scores

Score Type Score Vector
Amazon Linux CVSSv2 5.1 AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Amazon Linux CVSSv3 5.8 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L
NVD CVSSv2 6.8 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
NVD CVSSv3 7.8 CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H