CVE-2016-7978
critical
CVSS v3
9.8
CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
9.8
Description
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.
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
97%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.
✚ Propose a mitigation on Community → Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here withsource_tier=community-verified.
OS impact
SUSE Affected 1 release
| Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| — | Affected | — |
Debian Fixed 5 releases
| Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| trixie | Fixed | 9.19~dfsg-3.1 |
| sid | Fixed | 9.19~dfsg-3.1 |
| forky | Fixed | 9.19~dfsg-3.1 |
| bullseye | Fixed | 9.19~dfsg-3.1 |
| bookworm | Fixed | 9.19~dfsg-3.1 |
Application impact
| Vendor | Product | Versions | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| artifex | ghostscript | 9.20 | |
References
- 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://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201702-31
- https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-7978.html
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-7978
CWEs
CWE-416
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.