CVE-2017-14946 — Artifex GSView 6.0 Beta on Windows allows attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted .pdf file, related to "Data from Faulting Address controls Branch Selection starting at mupdfnet64!mIncrementalSaveFile+0x000000000000344e."

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HIGH

Artifex GSView 6.0 Beta on Windows allows attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted .pdf file, related to "Data from Faulting Address controls Branch Selection starting at mupdfnet64!mIncrementalSaveFile+0x000000000000344e."

Published Sep 29, 2017

7.8

HIGH

CVSS 3.0

EPSS 0.77%

Description

Artifex GSView 6.0 Beta on Windows allows attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted .pdf file, related to "Data from Faulting Address controls Branch Selection starting at mupdfnet64!mIncrementalSaveFile+0x000000000000344e."

Affected products

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Metrics

0.77% 0.00772

Estimated probability of exploitation in the wild in the next 30 days (FIRST EPSS). As of Oct 1, 2026.

EPSS probability 0.00772

Score over time

2021–2026

EPSS v1
EPSS v2
EPSS v3
EPSS v4
EPSS v5

Percentile over time

EPSS v1
EPSS v2
EPSS v3
EPSS v4
EPSS v5

Table of values (16 key points)

Flat stretches are collapsed; showing up to 120 newest points.

Date	Score	Percentile	Model
Oct 1, 2026	0.77% (0.00772)	54.04th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Jun 15, 2026	0.77% (0.00772)	50.71th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Mar 17, 2025	0.16% (0.00158)	34.06th	v4 (v2025.03.14)
Dec 12, 2024	0.09% (0.00091)	40.47th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Apr 25, 2024	0.08% (0.00081)	33.72th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 15, 2024	0.07% (0.00072)	29.19th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Feb 8, 2024	0.07% (0.00066)	26.53th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 7, 2023	0.09% (0.00091)	37.19th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 6, 2023	0.89% (0.00885)	27.89th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Sep 10, 2022	0.89% (0.00885)	26.24th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Apr 1, 2022	0.89% (0.00885)	24.24th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Feb 4, 2022	0.89% (0.00885)	10.50th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Feb 3, 2022	5.62% (0.05618)	80.44th	v1
Jan 6, 2022	5.62% (0.05618)	80.24th	v1
Sep 1, 2021	5.62% (0.05618)	88.96th	v1
Apr 14, 2021	5.62% (0.05618)	0.00th	v1

Weaknesses (1)

CWE-119

Buffer Overflow

References (1)

https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=698538
x_refsource_CONFIRMExploitIssue TrackingThird Party Advisory

Link	Providers	Tags
https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=698538		x_refsource_CONFIRMExploitIssue TrackingThird Party Advisory

Change history (0)

No recorded changes yet.

Sources

CVE.org / MITRE

Status PUBLISHED

Assigner mitre

Published Sep 29, 2017

Updated Sep 16, 2024

Reserved Sep 29, 2017

Link CVE-2017-14946

CISA Vulnrichment

Updated n/a

NVD

Status Modified

Modified Jun 17, 2026

Link CVE-2017-14946

Red Hat

Severity n/a

Public date n/a

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