CVE-2016-7979 (GCVE-0-2016-7979)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2017-05-23 03:56 – Updated: 2024-08-06 02:13
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Summary
Ghostscript before 9.21 might allow remote attackers to bypass the SAFER mode protection mechanism and consequently execute arbitrary code by leveraging type confusion in .initialize_dsc_parser.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
Date Public
2016-10-05 00:00
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