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CVE-2016-7978

Published: 6 October 2016

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.

Notes

AuthorNote
sbeattie
reproducer in ghostscript bug report

Priority

Medium

CVSS 3 base score: 9.8

Status

Package Release Status
ghostscript
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
precise
Released (9.05~dfsg-0ubuntu4.4)
trusty Does not exist
(trusty was released [9.10~dfsg-0ubuntu10.5])
upstream Needs triage

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;h=d5ad1e0298e1c193087c824eb4f79628b182e28b