CVE-2017-8291

Description

Artifex Ghostscript through 2017-04-26 allows -dSAFER bypass and remote command execution via .rsdparams type confusion with a "/OutputFile (%pipe%" substring in a crafted .eps document that is an input to the gs program, as exploited in the wild in April 2017.

References

• https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-8291
• https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2017-17253
• http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3838
• https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1036453
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1230
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/98476
• https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/41955/
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/04/28/2
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201708-06
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1446063
• https://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=04b37bbce174eed24edec7ad5b920eb93db4d47d
• https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=697808