CVE-2016-10218

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2017-04-03 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-476

Description

The pdf14_pop_transparency_group function in base/gdevp14.c in the PDF Transparency module in Artifex Software, Inc. Ghostscript 9.20 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and application crash) via a crafted file.

Affected products

Artifex Ghostscript: 9.20

References

http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=d621292fb2c8157d9899dcd83fd04dd250e30fe4
https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=697444
http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=d621292fb2c8157d9899dcd83fd04dd250e30fe4
https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=697444

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