CVE-2016-7979

Ghostscript versiones anteriores a 9.21 podría permitir que los atacantes remotos pasaran por alto el mecanismo de protección del modo SAFER y, en consecuencia, ejecutar código arbitrario mediante el aprovechamiento de la confusión de tipos en .initialize_dsc_parser.

It was found that the ghostscript function .initialize_dsc_parser did not validate its parameter before using it, allowing a type confusion flaw. A specially crafted postscript document could cause a crash code execution in the context of the gs process.

The Ghostscript suite contains utilities for rendering PostScript and PDF documents. Ghostscript translates PostScript code to common bitmap formats so that the code can be displayed or printed. Security Fix: It was found that the ghostscript functions getenv, filenameforall and .libfile did not honor the -dSAFER option, usually used when processing untrusted documents, leading to information disclosure. A specially crafted postscript document could read environment variable, list directory and retrieve file content respectively, from the target.