Ghostscript segmentation fault on PDF using -dFirstPage and -dLastPage

Bug #1806517 reported by Laurent Dinclaux
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ghostscript (Ubuntu)
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Marc Deslauriers
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Marc Deslauriers
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Bug Description

In order to convert a PDF file in PNG I use the command:

» convert "myfile.pdf[0]" test.png

Which gives this error:

convert-im6.q16: FailedToExecuteCommand `'gs' -sstdout=%stderr -dQUIET -dSAFER -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -dNOPROMPT -dMaxBitmap=500000000 -dAlignToPixels=0 -dGridFitTT=2 '-sDEVICE=pngalpha' -dTextAlphaBits=4 -dGraphicsAlphaBits=4 '-r72x72' -dFirstPage=1 -dLastPage=1 '-sOutputFile=/tmp/magick-11774WIkYdVETEs9I%d' '-f/tmp/magick-11774JZhknqCDhkN0' '-f/tmp/magick-11774twGtf-JFihri'' (-1) @ error/delegate.c/ExternalDelegateCommand/462.
convert-im6.q16: no images defined `test.png' @ error/convert.c/ConvertImageCommand/3258.

So I tried using ghostscript directly:

» ghostscript -dSAFER -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -dNOPROMPT -dMaxBitmap=500000000 -dAlignToPixels=0 -dGridFitTT=2 -sDEVICE=pngalpha -dTextAlphaBits=4 -dGraphicsAlphaBits=4 -r72x72 -dFirstPage=1 -dLastPage=1 '-sOutputFile=test.png' '-fmyfile.pdf'

Which gives an error:

GPL Ghostscript 9.26 (2018-11-20)
Copyright (C) 2018 Artifex Software, Inc. All rights reserved.
This software comes with NO WARRANTY: see the file PUBLIC for details.
Processing pages 1 through 1.
Page 1
[1] 10954 segmentation fault (core dumped) ghostscript -dSAFER -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -dNOPROMPT -dMaxBitmap=500000000

If I omit -dFirstPage=1 -dLastPage=1 it works properly:

» ghostscript -dSAFER -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -dNOPROMPT -dMaxBitmap=500000000 -dAlignToPixels=0 -dGridFitTT=2 -sDEVICE=pngalpha -dTextAlphaBits=4 -dGraphicsAlphaBits=4 -r72x72 '-sOutputFile=test.png' '-fmyfile.pdf'
GPL Ghostscript 9.26 (2018-11-20)
Copyright (C) 2018 Artifex Software, Inc. All rights reserved.
This software comes with NO WARRANTY: see the file PUBLIC for details.
Processing pages 1 through 2.
Page 1
Page 2

Please note that it also affects imagemagick convert command and PHP readimage command. I have confirmed the bug on Ubuntu 16.04 too.

The recent ghostscript 9.26 version is definitely guilty.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.10
Package: ghostscript 9.26~dfsg+0-0ubuntu0.18.10.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.18.0-11.12-generic 4.18.12
Uname: Linux 4.18.0-11-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia_modeset nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.20.10-0ubuntu13.1
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: GNOME
Date: Tue Dec 4 12:59:59 2018
InstallationDate: Installed on 2018-06-28 (158 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 18.04 LTS "Bionic Beaver" - Release amd64 (20180426)
SourcePackage: ghostscript
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to cosmic on 2018-10-20 (44 days ago)

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In , Bheeshmar (bheeshmar) wrote :
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Created attachment 16469
PDF which causes segfault in 9.26

We use ImageMagick to extract a the first page of a PDF as a thumbnail and recently started getting exceptions with some PDFs. Traced it to the call that ImageMagick was making:

gs -dQUIET -dSAFER -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -dNOPROMPT -dMaxBitmap=500000000 -dAlignToPixels=0 -dGridFitTT=2 '-sDEVICE=pngalpha' -dTextAlphaBits=4 -dGraphicsAlphaBits=4 '-r72x72' -dLastPage=1 -sOutputFile=1.png -f Bloomfire-Security_and_Redundancy.pdf

When this is run with GS version 9.25, the thumbnail is extracted with no error.
When this is run with GS version 9.26, I see "Segmentation fault: 11"

I've attached a file that causes there error. Observed on both OSX and Ubuntu Linux.

Here is the output from running the same command with -dDEBUG:

START 0 1455888 160729 1310728 29572 true 587 3 <0>
END PROCS 0 1504736 208805 1330928 35516 true 709 3 <0>
gs_std_e.ps 0 1524936 219150 1330928 38012 true 717 3 <0>
gs_il1_e.ps 0 1524936 225026 1330928 38012 true 718 3 <0>
END FONTDIR/ENCS 0 1524936 225302 1330928 38012 true 720 3 <0>
END DEVS 0 1601672 291074 1330928 38012 true 724 3 <0>
END STATD 0 1601672 305936 1330928 40908 true 729 3 <0>
END GS_FONTS 0 1662272 362977 1330928 40908 true 777 3 <0>
END BASIC COLOR 0 1662272 370569 1330928 40908 true 797 3 <0>
END IMAGE 0 1682472 383205 1330928 40908 true 802 3 <0>
gs_btokn.ps 0 1682472 390509 1330928 40908 true 806 3 <1>
gs_dps1.ps 0 1702672 397919 1330928 40908 true 808 3 <1>
gs_dps2.ps 0 1731320 419098 1330928 40908 true 809 3 <1>
gs_agl.ps 0 2465232 1119600 1330928 40908 true 811 3 <1>
gs_type1.ps 0 2465232 1126479 1330928 41186 true 819 3 <1>
gs_lev2.ps 0 2554480 1192135 1436088 146788 true 825 3 <1>
BEGIN RESOURCES 0 2554480 1194793 1436088 146788 true 825 4 <2>
END CATEGORY 0 2554480 1198912 1436088 147084 true 826 5 <2>
END GENERIC 0 2564516 1219750 1436088 147084 true 828 4 <2>
END FIXED 0 2584716 1237312 1436088 147084 true 828 4 <2>
END MISC 0 2604916 1252528 1436088 147084 true 828 4 <2>
END ENCODING 0 2734596 1382958 1436088 150722 true 828 4 <2>
gs_resmp.ps 10 2774996 1412399 1436088 152568 true 832 3 <2>
gs_res.ps 10 2774996 1410261 1436088 152568 true 832 3 <1>
gs_typ42.ps 10 2774996 1411595 1436088 152568 true 835 3 <1>
gs_cidfn.ps 10 2815396 1446804 1436088 152568 true 843 3 <1>
gs_cidcm.ps 10 2835596 1472845 1436088 152568 true 843 3 <1>
gs_fntem.ps 10 2884444 1520727 1436088 152568 true 845 3 <1>
gs_cidtt.ps 10 2904644 1540784 1436088 152568 true 845 3 <1>
gs_cidfm.ps 10 2924844 1554924 1436088 152568 true 845 3 <1>
gs_cmap.ps 10 2945044 1574218 1436088 152568 true 850 3 <1>
gs_setpd.ps 10 2965244 1599534 1436088 152568 true 850 3 <1>
gs_fapi.ps 10 3005644 1632658 1436088 152568 true 848 3 <1>
gs_typ32.ps 10 3005644 1635417 1436088 152568 true 846 3 <1>
gs_frsd.ps 10 3005644 1638227 1436088 152568 true 846 3 <1>
gs_ll3.ps 10 3167244 1792468 1436088 152816 true 847 3 <1>
gs_icc.ps 10 3167244 1798386 1436088 152816 true 848 3 <1>
gs_mex_e.ps 10 3187444 1804404 1436088 152816 true 848 3 <1>
gs_mro_e.ps 10 3187444 1805591 1436088 152816 true 848 3 <1>
gs_pdf_e.ps 10 3187444 1806824 1436088 152816 true 848 3 <1>
gs_wan_e.ps 10 3187444 1808074 1436088 1...

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In , Bheeshmar (bheeshmar) wrote :

We use ImageMagick to extract a the first page of a PDF as a thumbnail and recently started getting exceptions with some PDFs. Traced it to the call that ImageMagick was making:

gs -dQUIET -dSAFER -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -dNOPROMPT -dMaxBitmap=500000000 -dAlignToPixels=0 -dGridFitTT=2 '-sDEVICE=pngalpha' -dTextAlphaBits=4 -dGraphicsAlphaBits=4 '-r72x72' -dLastPage=1 -sOutputFile=1.png -f Bloomfire-Security_and_Redundancy.pdf

When this is run with GS version 9.25, the thumbnail is extracted with no error.
When this is run with GS version 9.26, I see "Segmentation fault: 11"

I've attached a file that causes there error. Observed on both OSX and Ubuntu Linux.

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In , Bheeshmar (bheeshmar) wrote :

Created attachment 16470
Output of run with -dDEBUG

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In , Bheeshmar (bheeshmar) wrote :

Created attachment 16471
PDF example that causes the segfault

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In , Ken Sharp (ken-sharp) wrote :

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 699815 ***

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Laurent Dinclaux (dreadlox) wrote :
Changed in gs-gpl:
importance: Unknown → Medium
status: Unknown → New
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In , Laurent Dinclaux (laurent-m) wrote :

I have the same issue on multiple servers running ubuntu 16.04 or 18.04 since the 9.26 upgrade. In order to convert a PDF file in PNG I use the command:

» convert "myfile.pdf[0]" test.png

Which gives this error:

convert-im6.q16: FailedToExecuteCommand `'gs' -sstdout=%stderr -dQUIET -dSAFER -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -dNOPROMPT -dMaxBitmap=500000000 -dAlignToPixels=0 -dGridFitTT=2 '-sDEVICE=pngalpha' -dTextAlphaBits=4 -dGraphicsAlphaBits=4 '-r72x72' -dFirstPage=1 -dLastPage=1 '-sOutputFile=/tmp/magick-11774WIkYdVETEs9I%d' '-f/tmp/magick-11774JZhknqCDhkN0' '-f/tmp/magick-11774twGtf-JFihri'' (-1) @ error/delegate.c/ExternalDelegateCommand/462.
convert-im6.q16: no images defined `test.png' @ error/convert.c/ConvertImageCommand/3258.

So I tried using ghostscript directly:

» ghostscript -dSAFER -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -dNOPROMPT -dMaxBitmap=500000000 -dAlignToPixels=0 -dGridFitTT=2 -sDEVICE=pngalpha -dTextAlphaBits=4 -dGraphicsAlphaBits=4 -r72x72 -dFirstPage=1 -dLastPage=1 '-sOutputFile=test.png' '-fmyfile.pdf'

Which gives an error:

GPL Ghostscript 9.26 (2018-11-20)
Copyright (C) 2018 Artifex Software, Inc. All rights reserved.
This software comes with NO WARRANTY: see the file PUBLIC for details.
Processing pages 1 through 1.
Page 1
[1] 10954 segmentation fault (core dumped) ghostscript -dSAFER -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -dNOPROMPT -dMaxBitmap=500000000

If I omit -dFirstPage=1 -dLastPage=1 it works properly:

» ghostscript -dSAFER -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -dNOPROMPT -dMaxBitmap=500000000 -dAlignToPixels=0 -dGridFitTT=2 -sDEVICE=pngalpha -dTextAlphaBits=4 -dGraphicsAlphaBits=4 -r72x72 '-sOutputFile=test.png' '-fmyfile.pdf'
GPL Ghostscript 9.26 (2018-11-20)
Copyright (C) 2018 Artifex Software, Inc. All rights reserved.
This software comes with NO WARRANTY: see the file PUBLIC for details.
Processing pages 1 through 2.
Page 1
Page 2

Please note that it also affects imagemagick convert command and PHP readimage command.

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Laurent Dinclaux (dreadlox) wrote : Re: Ghostscript segmentation fault onb PDF using -dFirstPage and -dLastPage

NOTE: This won't survive an apt upgrade and may raise security issues (gs has been update to 9.26 because of security issues, see http://changelogs.ubuntu.com/changelogs/pool/main/g/ghostscript/ghostscript_9.26~dfsg+0-0ubuntu0.18.04.1/changelog)

As a temporary workaround one can downgrade.

For xenial (ubuntu 16.04):

# apt install libgs9-common=9.18~dfsg~0-0ubuntu2 libgs9=9.18~dfsg~0-0ubuntu2 ghostscript=9.18~dfsg~0-0ubuntu2

For bionic (ubuntu 18.04):

# apt install libgs9-common=9.22~dfsg+1-0ubuntu1 libgs9=9.22~dfsg+1-0ubuntu1 ghostscript=9.22~dfsg+1-0ubuntu1

For cosmic (ubuntu 18.10):

# apt install libgs9-common=9.25~dfsg+1-0ubuntu1 libgs9=9.25~dfsg+1-0ubuntu1 ghostscript=9.25~dfsg+1-0ubuntu1

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Till Kamppeter (till-kamppeter) wrote :

Subscribing Ubuntu Security Team as this is a regression caused by the recent security updates.

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in ghostscript (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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Clemens Fuchslocher (clemens-fuchslocher) wrote :

I can confirm this problem on Ubuntu 16.04 and ghostscript 9.26~dfsg+0-0ubuntu0.16.04.1:

$ gs --version
9.26
$ convert "confidential.pdf[0]" confidential.png
convert: FailedToExecuteCommand `"gs" -q -dQUIET -dSAFER -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -dNOPROMPT -dMaxBitmap=500000000 -dAlignToPixels=0 -dGridFitTT=2 "-sDEVICE=pngalpha" -dTextAlphaBits=4 -dGraphicsAlphaBits=4 "-r72x72" -dFirstPage=1 -dLastPage=1 "-sOutputFile=/tmp/magick-12412a591aAW0c1rp%d" "-f/tmp/magick-12412pbD9WU9tgyvz" "-f/tmp/magick-12412_OoIhBmXubzJ"' (-1) @ error/delegate.c/ExternalDelegateCommand/461.
convert: no images defined `confidential.png' @ error/convert.c/ConvertImageCommand/3210.

The problem doesn't happen with ghostscript 9.25~dfsg+1-0ubuntu0.16.04.3:

$ dpkg --install libgs9_9.25~dfsg+1-0ubuntu0.16.04.3_amd64.deb libgs9-common_9.25~dfsg+1-0ubuntu0.16.04.3_all.deb ghostscript_9.25~dfsg+1-0ubuntu0.16.04.3_amd64.deb ghostscript-x_9.25~dfsg+1-0ubuntu0.16.04.3_amd64.deb
$ gs --version
9.25
$ convert "confidential.pdf[0]" confidential.png
$ identify confidential.png
confidential.png PNG 595x842 595x842+0+0 8-bit sRGB 22.5KB 0.000u 0:00.000

Not every PDF is affected by this problem.

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In , Ken Sharp (ken-sharp) wrote :

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 700315 ***

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In , Ken Sharp (ken-sharp) wrote :

*** Bug 700314 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

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In , Ken Sharp (ken-sharp) wrote :

*** Bug 700313 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

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In , Ken Sharp (ken-sharp) wrote :

Fixed in commit fae21f1668d2b44b18b84cf0923a1d5f3008a696

Changed in gs-gpl:
status: New → Invalid
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Laurent Dinclaux (dreadlox) wrote : Re: Ghostscript segmentation fault onb PDF using -dFirstPage and -dLastPage

I have changed the upstream related bug which has been resolved (patch available)

no longer affects: gs-gpl
Changed in gs-gpl:
importance: Unknown → Medium
status: Unknown → Fix Released
summary: - Ghostscript segmentation fault onb PDF using -dFirstPage and -dLastPage
+ Ghostscript segmentation fault on PDF using -dFirstPage and -dLastPage
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Till Kamppeter (till-kamppeter) wrote :

Fix applied to GS 9.26 in Disco.

To the security team: This is also a regression caused by the security updates to GS 9.26.

Changed in ghostscript (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Fix Committed
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Laurent Dinclaux (dreadlox) wrote :

A side note that 9.26 upgrade has been sent to all supported Ubuntu versions https://packages.ubuntu.com/search?keywords=ghostscript

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Marc Deslauriers (mdeslaur) wrote :

I'll work on updates. They will probably be released tomorrow afternoon.

Changed in ghostscript (Ubuntu Trusty):
status: New → Confirmed
Changed in ghostscript (Ubuntu Xenial):
status: New → Confirmed
Changed in ghostscript (Ubuntu Bionic):
status: New → Confirmed
Changed in ghostscript (Ubuntu Cosmic):
status: New → Confirmed
Changed in ghostscript (Ubuntu Trusty):
assignee: nobody → Marc Deslauriers (mdeslaur)
Changed in ghostscript (Ubuntu Xenial):
assignee: nobody → Marc Deslauriers (mdeslaur)
Changed in ghostscript (Ubuntu Bionic):
assignee: nobody → Marc Deslauriers (mdeslaur)
Changed in ghostscript (Ubuntu Cosmic):
assignee: nobody → Marc Deslauriers (mdeslaur)
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package ghostscript - 9.26~dfsg+0-0ubuntu3

---------------
ghostscript (9.26~dfsg+0-0ubuntu3) disco; urgency=low

  * Backported upstream patch to prevent crashes when calling Ghostscript
    with a PDF file and "-dLastPage=1" (LP: #1806517, upstream bug #700315).

 -- Till Kamppeter <email address hidden> Wed, 5 Dec 2018 16:47:06 +0100

Changed in ghostscript (Ubuntu Disco):
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package ghostscript - 9.26~dfsg+0-0ubuntu0.18.10.3

---------------
ghostscript (9.26~dfsg+0-0ubuntu0.18.10.3) cosmic-security; urgency=medium

  * SECURITY REGRESSION: multiple regressions (LP: #1806517)
    - debian/patches/020181126-96c381c*.patch: fix duplex issue.
    - debian/patches/020181205-fae21f16*.patch: fix -dFirstPage and
      -dLastPage issue.

 -- Marc Deslauriers <email address hidden> Thu, 06 Dec 2018 07:14:48 -0500

Changed in ghostscript (Ubuntu Cosmic):
status: Confirmed → Fix Released
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package ghostscript - 9.26~dfsg+0-0ubuntu0.16.04.3

---------------
ghostscript (9.26~dfsg+0-0ubuntu0.16.04.3) xenial-security; urgency=medium

  * SECURITY REGRESSION: multiple regressions (LP: #1806517)
    - debian/patches/020181126-96c381c*.patch: fix duplex issue.
    - debian/patches/020181205-fae21f16*.patch: fix -dFirstPage and
      -dLastPage issue.

 -- Marc Deslauriers <email address hidden> Thu, 06 Dec 2018 07:17:51 -0500

Changed in ghostscript (Ubuntu Xenial):
status: Confirmed → Fix Released
Revision history for this message
Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package ghostscript - 9.26~dfsg+0-0ubuntu0.18.04.3

---------------
ghostscript (9.26~dfsg+0-0ubuntu0.18.04.3) bionic-security; urgency=medium

  * SECURITY REGRESSION: multiple regressions (LP: #1806517)
    - debian/patches/020181126-96c381c*.patch: fix duplex issue.
    - debian/patches/020181205-fae21f16*.patch: fix -dFirstPage and
      -dLastPage issue.

 -- Marc Deslauriers <email address hidden> Thu, 06 Dec 2018 07:17:16 -0500

Changed in ghostscript (Ubuntu Bionic):
status: Confirmed → Fix Released
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package ghostscript - 9.26~dfsg+0-0ubuntu0.14.04.3

---------------
ghostscript (9.26~dfsg+0-0ubuntu0.14.04.3) trusty-security; urgency=medium

  * SECURITY REGRESSION: multiple regressions (LP: #1806517)
    - debian/patches/020181126-96c381c*.patch: fix duplex issue.
    - debian/patches/020181205-fae21f16*.patch: fix -dFirstPage and
      -dLastPage issue.

 -- Marc Deslauriers <email address hidden> Thu, 06 Dec 2018 07:18:19 -0500

Changed in ghostscript (Ubuntu Trusty):
status: Confirmed → Fix Released
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In , Ken Sharp (ken-sharp) wrote :

*** Bug 700350 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

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