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DEBIAN-CVE-2016-8602

The .sethalftone5 function in psi/zht2.c in Ghostscript before 9.21 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possib...

Original description

The description as published by the source.

The .sethalftone5 function in psi/zht2.c in Ghostscript before 9.21 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted Postscript document that calls .sethalftone5 with an empty operand stack.

Source: OSV.dev (Open Source Vulnerabilities) OSV

Affected packages

Debian:12 ghostscript

[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"9.19~dfsg-3.1"}]}]

Debian:13 ghostscript

[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"9.19~dfsg-3.1"}]}]

Debian:14 ghostscript

[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"9.19~dfsg-3.1"}]}]

References

advisory security-tracker.debian.org