Denial of Service Vulnerability in Artifex GSView on Windows
CVE-2017-14945

7.8HIGH

Key Information:

Vendor

Artifex
Status
Gsview
Vendor
CVE Published:
30 September 2017

What is CVE-2017-14945?

Artifex GSView 6.0 Beta on Windows is susceptible to a denial of service attack, potentially allowing malicious users to exploit specific crafted PDF files. This exploitation could lead to instability or crashes due to stack corruption issues that may arise from the improper handling of certain inputs, particularly related to the 'KERNELBASE!RaiseException' function.

References

https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=698537
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CVSS V3.1

Score:
7.8
Severity:
HIGH
Confidentiality:
High
Integrity:
High
Availability:
High
Attack Vector:
Local
Attack Complexity:
Low
Privileges Required:
None
User Interaction:
Required
Scope:
Unchanged

Timeline

  • Vulnerability Reserved

  • Vulnerability published

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