SB2017051503 - Red Hat update for ghostscript
Published: May 15, 2017 Updated: May 25, 2017
Security Bulletin ID
SB2017051503
Severity
High
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities
1
Exploitation vector
Remote access
Highest impact
Code execution
Breakdown by Severity
- Low
- Medium
- High
- Critical
Description
This security bulletin contains information about 1 security vulnerability.
1) Type confusion (CVE-ID: CVE-2017-8291)
The vulnerability allows a remote unauthenticated attacker to execute arbitrary commands on a targeted system.The weakness exists due to type confusion error when processing user-supplied parameters passed to the .rsdparams and .eqproc functions in ghostscript. A remote attacker can submit a specially crafted .eps document, execute code in the context of the ghostscript process and bypass -dSAFER protection.
Successful exploitation of the vulnerability may result in system compromise.
Note: this vulnerability is being exploited in the wild.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.