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CVE-2016-7979

Published: 6 October 2016

Ghostscript before 9.21 might allow remote attackers to bypass the SAFER mode protection mechanism and consequently execute arbitrary code by leveraging type confusion in .initialize_dsc_parser.

Notes

AuthorNote
sbeattie
reproducer in ghostscript bug report

Priority

Medium

CVSS 3 base score: 9.8

Status

Package Release Status
ghostscript
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
upstream Needs triage

precise
Released (9.05~dfsg-0ubuntu4.4)
trusty Does not exist
(trusty was released [9.10~dfsg-0ubuntu10.5])
xenial
Released (9.18~dfsg~0-0ubuntu2.2)
yakkety
Released (9.19~dfsg+1-0ubuntu6.2)
Patches:
upstream: http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git;a=commitdiff;h=875a0095f37626a721c7ff57d606a0f95af03913