Security readout for executives and security teams
A crafted XPS document can crash Artifex Ghostscript GhostXPS 9.21 by triggering a heap-based buffer over-read in font encoding handling. Business risk is mainly denial of service in systems that automatically process documents, with the CVE noting possible unspecified other impact but not proving it. Exposure is most likely where GhostXPS or Ghostscript-based tooling processes untrusted XPS documents, especially automated conversion, indexing, upload scanning, or print pipelines. Systems without GhostXPS/XPS processing are unlikely to be exposed. Treat as a moderate operational-risk issue unless XPS processing is internet-facing or business-critical. Prioritize patching document-processing systems that accept customer, email, upload, or batch-converted files. Mitigation focus: Follow Artifex or distribution guidance for fixed Ghostscript/GhostXPS packages.; Update packages that contain GhostXPS 9.21 or affected code paths.; Limit processing of untrusted XPS documents until fixed..
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- GLSA-201811-12CVE reference · vendor-advisory, x_refsource_GENTOO
- https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=698050CVE reference · x_refsource_CONFIRM
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