ID CVE-2016-7978
Summary 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.
References
Vulnerable Configurations
  • cpe:2.3:a:artifex:ghostscript:9.20:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    cpe:2.3:a:artifex:ghostscript:9.20:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
CVSS
Base: 7.5 (as of 05-01-2018 - 02:31)
Impact:
Exploitability:
CWE CWE-416
CAPEC
Access
VectorComplexityAuthentication
NETWORK LOW NONE
Impact
ConfidentialityIntegrityAvailability
PARTIAL PARTIAL PARTIAL
cvss-vector via4 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
redhat via4
advisories
rhsa
id RHSA-2017:0013
rpms
  • ghostscript-0:9.07-20.el7_3.1
  • ghostscript-cups-0:9.07-20.el7_3.1
  • ghostscript-debuginfo-0:9.07-20.el7_3.1
  • ghostscript-devel-0:9.07-20.el7_3.1
  • ghostscript-doc-0:9.07-20.el7_3.1
  • ghostscript-gtk-0:9.07-20.el7_3.1
refmap via4
bid 95336
confirm https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=697179
debian DSA-3691
gentoo GLSA-201702-31
mlist [oss-security] 20161005 Re: CVE Request - multiple ghostscript -dSAFER sandbox problems
Last major update 05-01-2018 - 02:31
Published 23-05-2017 - 04:29
Last modified 05-01-2018 - 02:31
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