CVEvulnerability
CVE-2016-7978
9.8 CRITICAL
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2017-05-23
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 9.8 CRITICAL — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 7.5 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-416
Description
Use-after-free vulnerability in Ghostscript 9.20 might allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via vectors related to a reference leak in .setdevice.
Affected configurations
• artifex ghostscript 9.20
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-416 Use After Free weakness
References
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0013.html rhn.redhat.com
- http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3691 www.debian.org
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/10/05/15 Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95336 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=697179 Issue Tracking, Patch
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201702-31 security.gentoo.org
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0013.html rhn.redhat.com
- http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3691 www.debian.org
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/10/05/15 Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95336 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=697179 Issue Tracking, Patch
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201702-31 security.gentoo.org