CVE-2016-7978 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

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.

No CVSS v4.0

No CVSS v3.1

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact High

Integrity Impact High

Availability Impact High

User Interaction None

Access Vector Network

Access Complexity Low

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact Partial

Integrity Impact Partial

Availability Impact Partial

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.02959.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

Vendors	Products
Artifex	Ghostscript
Redhat	Enterprise Linux

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:artifex:ghostscript:9.20:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Package	CPE	Advisory	Released Date
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
ghostscript-0:9.07-20.el7_3.1	cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7	RHSA-2017:0013	2017-01-04T00:00:00Z

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References

Link	Providers
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0013.html
http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3691
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/10/05/15
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95336
https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=697179
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-7978
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201702-31
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-7978

History

No history.

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2017-05-23T03:56:00.000Z

Updated: 2024-08-06T02:13:21.322Z

Reserved: 2016-09-09T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2016-7978

Vulnrichment

No data.

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2017-05-23T04:29:01.570

Modified: 2026-05-13T00:24:29.033

Link: CVE-2016-7978

Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2016-09-30T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2016-7978 - Bugzilla

OpenCVE Enrichment

No data.

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