CVEvulnerability
CVE-2016-10220
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2017-04-03
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 4.3 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-476
Description
The gs_makewordimagedevice function in base/gsdevmem.c in Artifex Software, Inc. Ghostscript 9.20 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and application crash) via a crafted file that is mishandled in the PDF Transparency module.
Affected configurations
• artifex ghostscript 9.20
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference weakness
References
- http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3838 www.debian.org
- http://www.ghostscript.com/cgi-bin/findgit.cgi?daf85701dab05f17e924a48a81edc9195b4a04e8 Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory
- https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=697450 Exploit, Issue Tracking, Patch
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201708-06 security.gentoo.org
- http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3838 www.debian.org
- http://www.ghostscript.com/cgi-bin/findgit.cgi?daf85701dab05f17e924a48a81edc9195b4a04e8 Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory
- https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=697450 Exploit, Issue Tracking, Patch
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201708-06 security.gentoo.org