CVE-2017-11714: Artifex Ghostscript

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 2.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

psi/ztoken.c in Artifex Ghostscript 9.21 mishandles references to the scanner state structure, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted PostScript document, related to an out-of-bounds read in the igc_reloc_struct_ptr function in psi/igc.c.

Affected products

  • Artifex Ghostscript: version 9.21 only
  • Debian Debian Linux: version 8.0 only; version 9.0 only

Published 2017-07-28. Last modified 2026-06-17.