{
  "threat_severity" : "Moderate",
  "public_date" : "2016-09-28T00:00:00Z",
  "bugzilla" : {
    "description" : "ghostscript: .libfile does not honor -dSAFER",
    "id" : "1380415",
    "url" : "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1380415"
  },
  "cvss" : {
    "cvss_base_score" : "4.3",
    "cvss_scoring_vector" : "AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N",
    "status" : "verified"
  },
  "cvss3" : {
    "cvss3_base_score" : "6.2",
    "cvss3_scoring_vector" : "CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N",
    "status" : "verified"
  },
  "details" : [ "Ghostscript before 9.21 might allow remote attackers to bypass the SAFER mode protection mechanism and consequently read arbitrary files via the use of the .libfile operator in a crafted postscript document.", "It was found that ghostscript function .libfile did not honor the -dSAFER option, usually used when processing untrusted documents, leading to information disclosure. A specially crafted postscript document could, in the context of the gs process, retrieve file content on the target machine." ],
  "affected_release" : [ {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6",
    "release_date" : "2017-01-04T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2017:0014",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6",
    "package" : "ghostscript-0:8.70-21.el6_8.1"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7",
    "release_date" : "2017-01-04T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2017:0013",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7",
    "package" : "ghostscript-0:9.07-20.el7_3.1"
  } ],
  "package_state" : [ {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5",
    "fix_state" : "Will not fix",
    "package_name" : "ghostscript",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:5"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise 2",
    "fix_state" : "Will not fix",
    "package_name" : "ghostscript",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/a:redhat:openshift:2"
  } ],
  "references" : [ "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-7977\nhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-7977" ],
  "name" : "CVE-2016-7977",
  "csaw" : false
}