CVE-2016-7979

CriticalCVSS 9.8/10Last modified Jun 17, 2026

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.

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-704

Affected software

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

References

http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Bh=875a0095f37626a721c7ff57d606a0f95af03913
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0013.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0014.html
http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3691
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/10/05/15Mailing List, Patch
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95337Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=697190Issue Tracking, Patch
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201702-31
http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Bh=875a0095f37626a721c7ff57d606a0f95af03913
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0013.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0014.html
http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3691
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/10/05/15Mailing List, Patch
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95337Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=697190Issue 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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