PublicDateAtUSN: 2016-10-06
Candidate: CVE-2016-7978
PublicDate: 2017-05-23 04:29:00 UTC
References:
 https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-7978
 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/10/05/7
 https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3148-1
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.
Ubuntu-Description:
Notes:
 sbeattie> reproducer in ghostscript bug report
Bugs:
 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=839845
 http://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=697179
Priority: medium
Discovered-by:
Assigned-to:
CVSS:
 nvd: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H [9.8 CRITICAL]

Patches_ghostscript:
 upstream: http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=user/chrisl/ghostpdl.git;h=d5ad1e0298e1c193087c824eb4f79628b182e28b
upstream_ghostscript: needs-triage
precise_ghostscript: released (9.05~dfsg-0ubuntu4.4)
trusty_ghostscript: released (9.10~dfsg-0ubuntu10.5)
trusty/esm_ghostscript: DNE (trusty was released [9.10~dfsg-0ubuntu10.5])
vivid/stable-phone-overlay_ghostscript: DNE
vivid/ubuntu-core_ghostscript: DNE
xenial_ghostscript: released (9.18~dfsg~0-0ubuntu2.2)
esm-infra/xenial_ghostscript: released (9.18~dfsg~0-0ubuntu2.2)
yakkety_ghostscript: released (9.19~dfsg+1-0ubuntu6.2)
devel_ghostscript: released (9.19~dfsg+1-0ubuntu7.1)