| Name | CVE-2016-8602 |
| Description | 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 | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
| References | DLA-674-1, DSA-3691-1 |
| Debian Bugs | 840451 |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| ghostscript (PTS) | jessie, jessie (lts) | 9.26a~dfsg-0+deb8u12 | fixed |
| stretch (security) | 9.26a~dfsg-0+deb9u9 | fixed |
| stretch (lts), stretch | 9.26a~dfsg-0+deb9u12 | fixed |
| buster (security), buster, buster (lts) | 9.27~dfsg-2+deb10u9 | fixed |
| bullseye | 9.53.3~dfsg-7+deb11u7 | fixed |
| bullseye (security) | 9.53.3~dfsg-7+deb11u8 | fixed |
| bookworm | 10.0.0~dfsg-11+deb12u5 | fixed |
| bookworm (security) | 10.0.0~dfsg-11+deb12u6 | fixed |
| sid, trixie | 10.04.0~dfsg-1 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
Notes
http://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=697203
https://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git;a=commit;h=f5c7555c30393e64ec1f5ab0dfae5b55b3b3fc78