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CVE-2016-7976

Published: 6 October 2016

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

Notes

AuthorNote
sbeattie
reproducer in second oss-security post

Priority

Medium

CVSS 3 base score: 8.8

Status

Package Release Status
ghostscript
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
upstream Needs triage

precise
Released (9.05~dfsg-0ubuntu4.4)
trusty Does not exist
(trusty was released [9.10~dfsg-0ubuntu10.5])
xenial
Released (9.18~dfsg~0-0ubuntu2.2)
yakkety
Released (9.19~dfsg+1-0ubuntu6.2)
Patches:
upstream: http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=user/chrisl/ghostpdl.git;a=commitdiff;h=71ac87493b1e445d6c07554d4246cf7d4f44875c