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CVE-2016-7978

critical

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.

References

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95336

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/10/05/15

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201702-31

https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=697179

http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3691

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0013.html

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2017-05-23

Updated: 2025-04-20

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 7.5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Severity: High

CVSS v3

Base Score: 9.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Severity: Critical

EPSS

EPSS: 0.02959