Buffer overflow in Ghostscript
CVE-2008-0411
Stack-based buffer overflow in the zseticcspace function in zicc.c in Ghostscript 8.61 and earlier allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a postscript (.ps) file containing a long Range array in a .seticcspace operator.
Vulnerability class: Buffer Overflow
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 6.8 (Medium). Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.145 (96.6th percentile), scored .
Moderate probability of exploitation in the next 30 days — watch for active exploitation reports. 97th percentile — 96.6% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.145 · newest: 0.145 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Ghostscript — versions 0, 8.0.1, 8.15
- Mandrakesoft Mandrake Linux — versions 2007, 2007.0_x86_64, 2007.1
- Mandrakesoft Mandrake Linux Corporate Server — versions 3.0, 4.0
- Mandrakesoft Corporate Server — versions 3.0_x86_64, 4.0_x86_64
- Rpath Linux — versions 1
- Debian Linux — versions 3.1, 4.0
- Red Hat Desktop — versions 3.0, 4.0
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux — versions 5, as_3, as_4
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop — versions 5
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Workstation — versions 5
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- secunia.com/advisories/29103 (URL Repurposed, third-party-advisory)
- www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-599-1 (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)
- www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200803-14.xml (vendor-advisory, Patch)
- secunia.com/advisories/29154 (URL Repurposed, third-party-advisory)
- secunia.com/advisories/29196 (URL Repurposed, third-party-advisory)
- www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/488946/100/0/threaded (mailing-list, VDB Entry, Broken Link)
- www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0693/references (vdb-entry, Not Applicable)
- secunia.com/advisories/29314 (URL Repurposed, third-party-advisory)
- www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/488932/100/0/threaded (mailing-list, VDB Entry, Broken Link)
- oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval:org.mitre.oval:def:9557 (Broken Link, signature, vdb-entry)