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CVE-2016-7976

high

Description

The PS Interpreter in Ghostscript 9.18 and 9.20 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via crafted userparams.

References

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201702-31

https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=697178

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95332

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/10/19/6

http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3691

http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=user/chrisl/ghostpdl.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=6d444c273da5499a4cd72f21cb6d4c9a5256807d

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2017-08-07

Updated: 2025-04-20

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 6.8

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 8.8

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

Severity: High

EPSS

EPSS: 0.68955