DEBIAN-CVE-2016-7978

DEBIAN-CVE-2016-7978 PUBLISHED CVSS 9.800000190734863 CRITICAL

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.

Risk Scores

CVSS v3.0

9.800000190734863

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected Products

Vendor	Product	Versions
Debian:11	ghostscript	0, 0, 0
Debian:13	ghostscript	0, 0, 0
Debian:12	ghostscript	0, 0, 0
Debian:14	ghostscript	0, 0, 0

Timeline

May 23, 2017 CVE Published
Apr 28, 2026 CVE Updated

References

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-7978 advisory

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