CVEvulnerability
CVE-2016-7979
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-704
Description
Ghostscript before 9.21 might allow remote attackers to bypass the SAFER mode protection mechanism and consequently execute arbitrary code by leveraging type confusion in .initialize_dsc_parser.
Affected configurations
• artifex ghostscript (<= 9.20)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-704 Incorrect Type Conversion or Cast weakness
References
- http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Bh=875a0095f37626a721c7ff57d606a0f95af03913 git.ghostscript.com
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0013.html rhn.redhat.com
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0014.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
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95337 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=697190 Issue Tracking, Patch
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201702-31 security.gentoo.org
- http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Bh=875a0095f37626a721c7ff57d606a0f95af03913 git.ghostscript.com
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0013.html rhn.redhat.com
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0014.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
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95337 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=697190 Issue Tracking, Patch
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201702-31 security.gentoo.org