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CVE-2016-7978
CRITICAL · CVSS 9.8
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2017-05-23T04:29:01.570 · Last modified 2026-06-17T00:53:52.560

Summary

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.

Affected products

artifex — ghostscript

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References

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