CVE-2016-7978

Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 5.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2017-05-23 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-416

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.

Affected products

Artifex Ghostscript: 9.20

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/2016/10/05/15
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95336
https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=697179
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/2016/10/05/15
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95336
https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=697179
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201702-31

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