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CVE-2017-6196

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2017-02-24 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-416

Description

Multiple use-after-free vulnerabilities in the gx_image_enum_begin function in base/gxipixel.c in Ghostscript before ecceafe3abba2714ef9b432035fe0739d9b1a283 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted PostScript document.

Affected products

• Artifex Afpl Ghostscript: through 8452f9238959a4d518af365812bf031fe4d8d4b7

References

• http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Bh=ecceafe3abba2714ef9b432035fe0739d9b1a283
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96428
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037899
• https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=697596
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201708-06
• http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Bh=ecceafe3abba2714ef9b432035fe0739d9b1a283
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96428
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037899
• https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=697596
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201708-06

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