PT-2018-6763

CVE-2017-18237

Published

2018-02-27

Updated

2018-05-16

Description by

CVSS 3.1

5.5

Medium

MetricsAV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Exempi versions prior to 2.4.3

Description: An issue in the PostScript Support::ConvertToDate function allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service, resulting in an invalid pointer dereference and application crash, via a crafted .ps file.

Recommendations: For versions prior to 2.4.3, update to version 2.4.3 or later to resolve the issue. As a temporary workaround, consider restricting the processing of .ps files to minimize the risk of exploitation.

Exploitability

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Fix

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Weakness enumeration

CWE-476: NULL Pointer Dereference

Related identifiers

CVE-2017-18237

ALT-PU-2018-1294