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Bug 617018 (CVE-2016-10220) - <app-text/ghostscript-gpl-9.21: NULL pointer dereference in the gs_makewordimagedevice function
Summary: <app-text/ghostscript-gpl-9.21: NULL pointer dereference in the gs_makewordim...
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: CVE-2016-10220
Product: Gentoo Security
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Vulnerabilities (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: Normal normal
Assignee: Gentoo Security
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Whiteboard: B3 [glsa cve]
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Depends on: CVE-2017-8291
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Reported: 2017-04-29 17:08 UTC by Ian Zimmerman
Modified: 2017-10-08 20:33 UTC (History)
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Description Ian Zimmerman 2017-04-29 17:08:21 UTC 
RH summary [1]:
The gs_makewordimagedevice function in base/gsdevmem.c in Artifex Software, Inc. Ghostscript allows attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and application crash) via a crafted file that is mishandled in the PDF Transparency module.

Upstream patch [2]

Upstream ref [3]

[1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2016-10220
[2] http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git;h=daf85701dab05f17e924a48a81edc9195b4a04e8
[3] https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=697450
Comment 1 Andreas K. Hüttel archtester gentoo-dev 2017-06-09 22:56:01 UTC 
Version bump pushed.
Comment 2 GLSAMaker/CVETool Bot gentoo-dev 2017-08-21 01:16:30 UTC 
This issue was resolved and addressed in
 GLSA 201708-06 at https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201708-06
by GLSA coordinator Thomas Deutschmann (whissi).
Comment 3 Thomas Deutschmann (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2017-08-21 01:19:40 UTC 
Re-opening for remaining architecture.