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CVE-2017-7207

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2017-7207 is a denial-of-service vulnerability affecting Artifex Ghostscript 9.20, caused by a NULL pointer dereference in the mem_get_bits_rectangle function when processing a crafted PostScript document. Rated Medium severity (CVSS 5.5), it requires local access and user interaction to exploit, leading to high availability impact but no confidentiality or integrity compromise. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion or media coverage for this vulnerability.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
9.20CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:artifex:ghostscript:9.20:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

5.5MEDIUM

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
1.8
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
2.27%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
81.3%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0227 is in the 91st percentile among its peer group of 5,758 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.1 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (4)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: ghostscript-0:9.07-28.el7
View patch
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: ghostscript
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: ghostscript
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise 2Fixed in: ghostscript

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2017-7207Low

ghostscript: NULL pointer dereference in mem_get_bits_rectangle()

Mar 19, 2017

References

access.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2017:2180
bugs.ghostscript.com / show_bug.cgi
Issue TrackingPatch
security.gentoo.org / glsa/201708-06
debian.org / security/2017/dsa-3838
ghostscript.com / cgi-bin/findgit.cgi
Issue TrackingPatchThird Party Advisory
securityfocus.com / bid/96995
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
securitytracker.com / id/1039071