{"id":"USN-2697-1","summary":"ghostscript vulnerability","details":"William Robinet and Stefan Cornelius discovered that Ghostscript did not\ncorrectly handle certain Postscript files. If a user or automated system\nwere tricked into opening a specially crafted file, an attacker could cause\na denial of service or possibly execute arbitrary code.\n","modified":"2026-04-22T09:14:12.093334Z","published":"2015-07-30T12:13:27Z","related":["UBUNTU-CVE-2015-3228"],"upstream":["CVE-2015-3228","UBUNTU-CVE-2015-3228"],"references":[{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2697-1"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-3228"}],"affected":[{"package":{"name":"ghostscript","ecosystem":"Ubuntu:14.04:LTS","purl":"pkg:deb/ubuntu/ghostscript@9.10~dfsg-0ubuntu10.4?arch=source&distro=trusty"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"9.10~dfsg-0ubuntu10.4"}]}],"versions":["9.10~dfsg-0ubuntu2","9.10~dfsg-0ubuntu3","9.10~dfsg-0ubuntu4","9.10~dfsg-0ubuntu5","9.10~dfsg-0ubuntu6","9.10~dfsg-0ubuntu7","9.10~dfsg-0ubuntu8","9.10~dfsg-0ubuntu9","9.10~dfsg-0ubuntu10","9.10~dfsg-0ubuntu10.1","9.10~dfsg-0ubuntu10.2","9.10~dfsg-0ubuntu10.3"],"ecosystem_specific":{"binaries":[{"binary_name":"ghostscript","binary_version":"9.10~dfsg-0ubuntu10.4"},{"binary_name":"ghostscript-x","binary_version":"9.10~dfsg-0ubuntu10.4"},{"binary_name":"libgs9","binary_version":"9.10~dfsg-0ubuntu10.4"},{"binary_name":"libgs9-common","binary_version":"9.10~dfsg-0ubuntu10.4"}],"availability":"No subscription required"},"database_specific":{"cves_map":{"ecosystem":"Ubuntu:14.04:LTS","cves":[{"severity":[{"type":"Ubuntu","score":"medium"}],"id":"CVE-2015-3228"}]},"source":"https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/usn/USN-2697-1.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.7.5"}