CVE-2016-7978

CriticalCVSS 9.8/10Last modified Jun 17, 2026

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.

Metrics

CVSS 3.0 9.8/10CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Weakness enumeration

CWE-416

Affected software

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	n/a

References

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0013.html
http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3691
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/10/05/15Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95336Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=697179Issue Tracking, Patch
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201702-31
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0013.html
http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3691
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/10/05/15Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95336Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=697179Issue Tracking, Patch
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201702-31

Timeline

Published: May 23, 2017
Last modified: Jun 17, 2026
NVD status: Modified

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