ubuntu-cve-2017-15652
Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu
Published
2019-05-23 15:29
Modified
2025-07-16 04:53
Summary
Details

Artifex Ghostscript 9.22 is affected by: Obtain Information. The impact is: obtain sensitive information. The component is: affected source code file, affected function, affected executable, affected libga (imagemagick used that). The attack vector is: Someone must open a postscript file though ghostscript. Because of imagemagick also use libga, so it was affected as well.

Severity
5.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
N/A (UNKNOWN)
medium
References
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{
  "affected": [
    {
      "ecosystem_specific": {
        "availability": "No subscription required",
        "binaries": [
          {
            "binary_name": "ghostscript",
            "binary_version": "9.26~dfsg+0-0ubuntu0.18.04.9"
          },
          {
            "binary_name": "ghostscript-dbg",
            "binary_version": "9.26~dfsg+0-0ubuntu0.18.04.9"
          },
          {
            "binary_name": "ghostscript-doc",
            "binary_version": "9.26~dfsg+0-0ubuntu0.18.04.9"
          },
          {
            "binary_name": "ghostscript-x",
            "binary_version": "9.26~dfsg+0-0ubuntu0.18.04.9"
          },
          {
            "binary_name": "libgs-dev",
            "binary_version": "9.26~dfsg+0-0ubuntu0.18.04.9"
          },
          {
            "binary_name": "libgs9",
            "binary_version": "9.26~dfsg+0-0ubuntu0.18.04.9"
          },
          {
            "binary_name": "libgs9-common",
            "binary_version": "9.26~dfsg+0-0ubuntu0.18.04.9"
          }
        ]
      },
      "package": {
        "ecosystem": "Ubuntu:18.04:LTS",
        "name": "ghostscript",
        "purl": "pkg:deb/ubuntu/ghostscript@9.26~dfsg+0-0ubuntu0.18.04.9?arch=source\u0026distro=bionic"
      },
      "ranges": [
        {
          "events": [
            {
              "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
              "fixed": "9.26~dfsg+0-0ubuntu0.18.04.9"
            }
          ],
          "type": "ECOSYSTEM"
        }
      ],
      "versions": [
        "9.21~dfsg+1-0ubuntu3",
        "9.22~dfsg+1-0ubuntu1",
        "9.22~dfsg+1-0ubuntu1.1",
        "9.22~dfsg+1-0ubuntu1.2",
        "9.25~dfsg+1-0ubuntu0.18.04.1",
        "9.25~dfsg+1-0ubuntu0.18.04.2",
        "9.26~dfsg+0-0ubuntu0.18.04.1",
        "9.26~dfsg+0-0ubuntu0.18.04.3",
        "9.26~dfsg+0-0ubuntu0.18.04.4",
        "9.26~dfsg+0-0ubuntu0.18.04.5",
        "9.26~dfsg+0-0ubuntu0.18.04.6",
        "9.26~dfsg+0-0ubuntu0.18.04.7",
        "9.26~dfsg+0-0ubuntu0.18.04.8"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "aliases": [],
  "details": "Artifex Ghostscript 9.22 is affected by: Obtain Information. The impact is: obtain sensitive information. The component is: affected source code file, affected function, affected executable, affected libga (imagemagick used that). The attack vector is: Someone must open a postscript file though ghostscript. Because of imagemagick also use libga, so it was affected as well.",
  "id": "UBUNTU-CVE-2017-15652",
  "modified": "2025-07-16T04:53:04Z",
  "published": "2019-05-23T15:29:00Z",
  "references": [
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-15652"
    },
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git;a=commitdiff;h=2fc463d0e"
    },
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=698676"
    },
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git;a=commitdiff;h=2fc463d0e"
    },
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-15652"
    }
  ],
  "related": [],
  "schema_version": "1.7.0",
  "severity": [
    {
      "score": "CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N",
      "type": "CVSS_V3"
    },
    {
      "score": "medium",
      "type": "Ubuntu"
    }
  ],
  "upstream": [
    "CVE-2017-15652"
  ],
  "withdrawn": "2025-07-18T16:44:12Z"
}



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