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CVE-2016-7976

• Severity: high (CVSS 8.8 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 23.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2017-08-07 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-20

Description

The PS Interpreter in Ghostscript 9.18 and 9.20 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via crafted userparams.

Affected products

• Artifex Ghostscript: 9.18, 9.20

References

• http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=user/chrisl/ghostpdl.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=6d444c273da5499a4cd72f21cb6d4c9a5256807d
• http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3691
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/10/19/6
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95332
• https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=697178
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201702-31
• http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=user/chrisl/ghostpdl.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=6d444c273da5499a4cd72f21cb6d4c9a5256807d
• http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3691
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/10/19/6
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95332
• https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=697178
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201702-31

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