CVE-2017-11714
psi/ztoken.c in Artifex Ghostscript 9.21 mishandles references to the scanner state structure,...
CVE-2017-11714 is a high vulnerability (CVSS 7.8) in Artifex Ghostscript, published July 28, 2017. No source lists public exploit code. EPSS puts the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days at 2.30%, the 83rd percentile. Fixed in ghostscript 9.22~dfsg-1.
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.
Attack profile
How easy it is to exploit
- Attack vector
- Local
- Complexity
- Low
- Privileges needed
- None
- User interaction
- Required
What an attacker can affect
- Confidentiality
- High
- Integrity
- High
- Availability
- High
Exploit likelihood
What each source reports
NVD Score used
7.8
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.
- Record
CVE-2017-11714- 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 - CVSS 2.0
- 6.8 Medium
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P - Weakness
- CWE-125
- Updated
- 2026-11-02
CVE List No score
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.
- Record
CVE-2017-11714- Updated
- 2026-11-02
EUVDEUVD-2017-3324 No score
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.
- Record
EUVD-2017-3324- Updated
- 2026-11-03
GitHub AdvisoriesGHSA-h69r-4pjw-g22q
7.8
psi/ztoken.c in Artifex Ghostscript 9.21 mishandles references to the scanner state structure,...
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.
- Record
GHSA-h69r-4pjw-g22q- 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 - Weakness
- CWE-125
- Updated
- 2026-11-02
OSVBELL-CVE-2017-11714
7.8
CVE-2017-11714 does not affect BellSoft software
- Record
BELL-CVE-2017-11714- 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 - Updated
- 2026-11-02
OSV
7.8
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.
- Record
CVE-2017-11714- 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 - Updated
- 2026-11-02
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OSVDEBIAN-CVE-2017-11714
7.8
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.
- Record
DEBIAN-CVE-2017-11714- 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 - Updated
- 2026-11-02
OSVUBUNTU-CVE-2017-11714
7.8
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.
- Record
UBUNTU-CVE-2017-11714- 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 - Updated
- 2026-11-02
OSVMGASA-2017-0355 No score
Updated ghostscript packages fix security vulnerabilities
The Ins_MIRP function in base/ttinterp.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. (CVE-2017-9611)
The Ins_IP function in base/ttinterp.c in Artifex Ghostscript GhostXPS 9.21 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (use-after-free and application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted document. (CVE-2017-9612)
The Ins_MDRP function in base/ttinterp.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. (CVE-2017-9726)
The gx_ttfReader__Read function in base/gxttfb.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. (CVE-2017-9727)
The Ins_JMPR function in base/ttinterp.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. (CVE-2017-9739)
The gs_alloc_ref_array function in psi/ialloc.c in Artifex Ghostscript 9.21 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (heap-based buffer overflow and application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted PostScript document. This is related to a lack of an integer overflow check in base/gsalloc.c. (CVE-2017-9835)
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. (CVE-2017-11714)
- Record
MGASA-2017-0355- Updated
- 2026-11-02
OSVSUSE-SU-2018:0407-1 No score
Security update for ghostscript
This update for ghostscript fixes several issues.
These security issues were fixed:
- CVE-2017-9835: The gs_alloc_ref_array function allowed remote attackers to cause a denial of service (heap-based buffer overflow and application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted PostScript document (bsc#1050879).
- CVE-2017-9216: Prevent NULL pointer dereference in the jbig2_huffman_get function in jbig2_huffman.c which allowed for DoS (bsc#1040643).
- CVE-2016-10317: The fill_threshhold_buffer function in base/gxht_thresh.c allowed remote attackers to cause a denial of service (heap-based buffer overflow and application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted PostScript document (bsc#1032230).
- CVE-2017-9612: The Ins_IP function in base/ttinterp.c allowed remote attackers to cause a denial of service (use-after-free and application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted document (bsc#1050891).
- CVE-2017-9726: The Ins_MDRP function in base/ttinterp.c allowed 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 (bsc#1050889).
- CVE-2017-9727: The gx_ttfReader__Read function in base/gxttfb.c allowed 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 (bsc#1050888).
- CVE-2017-9739: The Ins_JMPR function in base/ttinterp.c allowed 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 (bsc#1050887).
- CVE-2017-11714: psi/ztoken.c mishandled references to the scanner state structure, which allowed 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 (bsc#1051184).
- CVE-2016-10219: The intersect function in base/gxfill.c allowed remote attackers to cause a denial of service (divide-by-zero error and application crash) via a crafted file (bsc#1032138).
- Record
SUSE-SU-2018:0407-1- Updated
- 2026-11-02
OSVSUSE-SU-2018:1140-1 No score
Security update for ghostscript-library
This update for ghostscript-library fixes several issues.
These security issues were fixed:
- CVE-2017-7207: The mem_get_bits_rectangle function allowed remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference) via a crafted PostScript document (bsc#1030263).
- CVE-2016-9601: Prevent heap-buffer overflow by checking for an integer overflow in jbig2_image_new function (bsc#1018128).
- CVE-2017-9612: The Ins_IP function in base/ttinterp.c allowed remote attackers to cause a denial of service (use-after-free and application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted document (bsc#1050891)
- CVE-2017-9726: The Ins_MDRP function in base/ttinterp.c allowed 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 (bsc#1050889)
- CVE-2017-9727: The gx_ttfReader__Read function in base/gxttfb.c allowed 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 (bsc#1050888)
- CVE-2017-9739: The Ins_JMPR function in base/ttinterp.c allowed 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 (bsc#1050887)
- CVE-2017-11714: psi/ztoken.c mishandled references to the scanner state structure, which allowed 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 (bsc#1051184)
- CVE-2017-9835: The gs_alloc_ref_array function allowed remote attackers to cause a denial of service (heap-based buffer overflow and application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted PostScript document (bsc#1050879)
- CVE-2016-10219: The intersect function in base/gxfill.c allowed remote attackers to cause a denial of service (divide-by-zero error and application crash) via a crafted file (bsc#1032138)
- CVE-2017-9216: Prevent NULL pointer dereference in the jbig2_huffman_get function in jbig2_huffman.c which allowed for DoS (bsc#1040643)
- Record
SUSE-SU-2018:1140-1- Updated
- 2026-11-02
OSVUSN-3403-1 No score
ghostscript vulnerabilities
Kamil Frankowicz discovered that Ghostscript mishandles references. A remote attacker could use this to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2017-11714)
Kim Gwan Yeong discovered that Ghostscript could allow a heap-based buffer over-read and application crash. A remote attacker could use a crafted document to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2017-9611, CVE-2017-9726, CVE-2017-9727, CVE-2017-9739)
Kim Gwan Yeong discovered an use-after-free vulnerability in Ghostscript. A remote attacker could use a crafted file to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2017-9612)
Kim Gwan Yeong discovered a lack of integer overflow check in Ghostscript. A remote attacker could use crafted PostScript document to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2017-9835)
- Record
USN-3403-1- Updated
- 2026-11-02
Affected products
Affected packages
| Package | Affected | Fixed |
|---|---|---|
ghostscriptDebian:12 |
before 9.22~dfsg-1 | 9.22~dfsg-1 |
ghostscriptDebian:13 |
before 9.22~dfsg-1 | 9.22~dfsg-1 |
ghostscriptDebian:14 |
before 9.22~dfsg-1 | 9.22~dfsg-1 |
ghostscriptDebian:7 |
before 9.05~dfsg-6.3+deb7u7, plus listed versions 9.05~dfsg-6.39.05~dfsg-6.3+deb7u19.05~dfsg-6.3+deb7u29.05~dfsg-6.3+deb7u39.05~dfsg-6.3+deb7u49.05~dfsg-6.3+deb7u59.05~dfsg-6.3+deb7u6 |
9.05~dfsg-6.3+deb7u7 |
ghostscriptDebian:8 |
before 9.06~dfsg-2+deb8u6, plus listed versions 9.06~dfsg-29.06~dfsg-2+deb8u19.06~dfsg-2+deb8u29.06~dfsg-2+deb8u39.06~dfsg-2+deb8u49.06~dfsg-2+deb8u5 |
9.06~dfsg-2+deb8u6 |
ghostscriptDebian:9 |
before 9.20~dfsg-3.2+deb9u1, plus listed versions 9.20~dfsg-3.2 |
9.20~dfsg-3.2+deb9u1 |
ghostscriptMageia:5 |
before 9.20-1.1.mga5 | 9.20-1.1.mga5 |
ghostscriptMageia:6 |
before 9.20-3.1.mga6 | 9.20-3.1.mga6 |
ghostscriptSUSE:Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 SP2 |
before 9.15-23.7.1 | 9.15-23.7.1 |
ghostscriptSUSE:Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 SP3 |
before 9.15-23.7.1 | 9.15-23.7.1 |
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| Package | Affected | Fixed |
|---|---|---|
ghostscriptSUSE:Linux Enterprise Server for Raspberry Pi 12 SP2 |
before 9.15-23.7.1 | 9.15-23.7.1 |
ghostscriptSUSE:Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12 SP2 |
before 9.15-23.7.1 | 9.15-23.7.1 |
ghostscriptSUSE:Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12 SP3 |
before 9.15-23.7.1 | 9.15-23.7.1 |
ghostscriptSUSE:Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP2 |
before 9.15-23.7.1 | 9.15-23.7.1 |
ghostscriptSUSE:Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP2 |
before 9.15-23.7.1 | 9.15-23.7.1 |
ghostscriptSUSE:Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP3 |
before 9.15-23.7.1 | 9.15-23.7.1 |
ghostscriptSUSE:Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP3 |
before 9.15-23.7.1 | 9.15-23.7.1 |
ghostscript-librarySUSE:Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 11 SP4 |
before 8.62-32.47.7.1 | 8.62-32.47.7.1 |
ghostscript-librarySUSE:Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4 |
before 8.62-32.47.7.1 | 8.62-32.47.7.1 |
ghostscript-librarySUSE:Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 11 SP4 |
before 8.62-32.47.7.1 | 8.62-32.47.7.1 |
ghostscriptUbuntu:14.04:LTS |
before 9.10~dfsg-0ubuntu10.10, plus listed versions 9.10~dfsg-0ubuntu29.10~dfsg-0ubuntu39.10~dfsg-0ubuntu49.10~dfsg-0ubuntu59.10~dfsg-0ubuntu6 Show 12 moreShow less9.10~dfsg-0ubuntu79.10~dfsg-0ubuntu89.10~dfsg-0ubuntu99.10~dfsg-0ubuntu109.10~dfsg-0ubuntu10.19.10~dfsg-0ubuntu10.29.10~dfsg-0ubuntu10.39.10~dfsg-0ubuntu10.49.10~dfsg-0ubuntu10.59.10~dfsg-0ubuntu10.69.10~dfsg-0ubuntu10.79.10~dfsg-0ubuntu10.9 |
9.10~dfsg-0ubuntu10.10 |
ghostscriptUbuntu:16.04:LTS |
before 9.18~dfsg~0-0ubuntu2.7, plus listed versions 9.16~dfsg~0-0ubuntu39.16~dfsg~0-0ubuntu49.18~dfsg~0-0ubuntu19.18~dfsg~0-0ubuntu29.18~dfsg~0-0ubuntu2.29.18~dfsg~0-0ubuntu2.39.18~dfsg~0-0ubuntu2.49.18~dfsg~0-0ubuntu2.6 |
9.18~dfsg~0-0ubuntu2.7 |
History
| When | Changed | Sources |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-11-03 | aliases | EUVD |
| 2026-11-02 | created | CVE List, GitHub Advisories, NVD, OSV |
References
securitytracker.com/id/1039233
git.ghostscript.com?p=ghostpdl.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=671fd59eb657743aa86fbc1895cb15872a317caa
security.gentoo.org/glsa/201811-12
debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3986
bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=698158
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-11714
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git.ghostscript.com?p=ghostpdl.git;a=commit;h=671fd59eb657743aa86fbc1895cb15872a317caa
github.com/advisories/GHSA-h69r-4pjw-g22q
docs.bell-sw.com/security/cves/CVE-2017-11714
security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-11714
advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2017-0355.html
bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=21630
usn.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-3403-1
suse.com/support/update/announcement/2018/suse-su-20180407-1
bugzilla.suse.com/1032138
bugzilla.suse.com/1032230
bugzilla.suse.com/1040643
bugzilla.suse.com/1050879
bugzilla.suse.com/1050887
bugzilla.suse.com/1050888
bugzilla.suse.com/1050889
bugzilla.suse.com/1050891
bugzilla.suse.com/1051184
suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-10219
suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-10317
suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-11714
suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-9216
suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-9612
suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-9726
suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-9727
suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-9739
suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-9835
suse.com/support/update/announcement/2018/suse-su-20181140-1
bugzilla.suse.com/1018128
bugzilla.suse.com/1030263
suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-9601
suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-7207
ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-11714
ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3403-1
cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-11714
ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-9611
ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-9612
ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-9726
ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-9727
ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-9739
ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-9835