CVE-2016-7978

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CVSS 3.0

9.8 critical

EPSS

6%p92

Published

May 23, 2017 (May 23, 2017)

Modified

Jun 17, 2026

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.

Vendors: artifex
Products: ghostscript
Weakness: CWE-416
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

NVD CVE.org GitHub PoCs EPSS (5.5%)

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