CVEvulnerability
CVE-2016-7976
8.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2017-08-07
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 8.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 6.8 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-20
Description
The PS Interpreter in Ghostscript 9.18 and 9.20 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via crafted userparams.
Affected configurations
• artifex ghostscript 9.18
• artifex ghostscript 9.20
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-20 Improper Input Validation weakness
References
- http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=user/chrisl/ghostpdl.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=6d444c273da5499a4cd72f21cb6d4c9a5256807d git.ghostscript.com
- http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3691 www.debian.org
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/10/19/6 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95332 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=697178 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201702-31 Third Party Advisory
- http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=user/chrisl/ghostpdl.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=6d444c273da5499a4cd72f21cb6d4c9a5256807d git.ghostscript.com
- http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3691 www.debian.org
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/10/19/6 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95332 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=697178 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201702-31 Third Party Advisory