CVE-2009-4897
critical
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
9.3
Description
Buffer overflow in gs/psi/iscan.c in Ghostscript 8.64 and earlier allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (memory corruption) via a crafted PDF document containing a long name.
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.
✚ Propose a mitigation on Community → Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here withsource_tier=community-verified.
OS impact
Debian Fixed 5 releases
| Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| trixie | Fixed | 8.70~dfsg-1 |
| sid | Fixed | 8.70~dfsg-1 |
| forky | Fixed | 8.70~dfsg-1 |
| bullseye | Fixed | 8.70~dfsg-1 |
| bookworm | Fixed | 8.70~dfsg-1 |
Application impact
| Vendor | Product | Versions | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| artifex | afpl_ghostscript | 6.0 | |
| artifex | afpl_ghostscript | 6.01 | |
| artifex | afpl_ghostscript | 6.50 | |
| artifex | afpl_ghostscript | 7.00 | |
| artifex | afpl_ghostscript | 7.03 | |
| artifex | afpl_ghostscript | 7.04 | |
| artifex | afpl_ghostscript | 8.00 | |
| artifex | afpl_ghostscript | 8.11 | |
| artifex | afpl_ghostscript | 8.12 | |
| artifex | afpl_ghostscript | 8.13 | |
| artifex | afpl_ghostscript | 8.14 | |
| artifex | afpl_ghostscript | 8.50 | |
| artifex | afpl_ghostscript | 8.51 | |
| artifex | afpl_ghostscript | 8.52 | |
| artifex | afpl_ghostscript | 8.53 | |
| artifex | afpl_ghostscript | 8.54 | |
| artifex | ghostscript_fonts | 8.11 | |
| artifex | gpl_ghostscript | {"endIncluding":"8.64"} | |
| artifex | gpl_ghostscript | 8.01 | |
| artifex | gpl_ghostscript | 8.15 | |
| artifex | gpl_ghostscript | 8.50 | |
| artifex | gpl_ghostscript | 8.51 | |
| artifex | gpl_ghostscript | 8.54 | |
| artifex | gpl_ghostscript | 8.56 | |
| artifex | gpl_ghostscript | 8.57 | |
| artifex | gpl_ghostscript | 8.60 | |
| artifex | gpl_ghostscript | 8.61 | |
| artifex | gpl_ghostscript | 8.62 | |
| artifex | gpl_ghostscript | 8.63 | |
| artifex | gpl_ghostscript | 8.70 | |
| artifex | gpl_ghostscript | 8.71 | |
References
- http://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=690523
- http://secunia.com/advisories/40580
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201412-17.xml
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2010:134
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2010:135
- http://www.osvdb.org/66277
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/41593
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-961-1
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=613792
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/60380
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2009-4897
CWEs
CWE-119
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.