CVE-2016-10220

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.9% 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 gs_makewordimagedevice function in base/gsdevmem.c 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 that is mishandled in the PDF Transparency module.

Affected products

Artifex Ghostscript: 9.20

References

http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3838
http://www.ghostscript.com/cgi-bin/findgit.cgi?daf85701dab05f17e924a48a81edc9195b4a04e8
https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=697450
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201708-06
http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3838
http://www.ghostscript.com/cgi-bin/findgit.cgi?daf85701dab05f17e924a48a81edc9195b4a04e8
https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=697450
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201708-06

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