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CVE-2016-7979
CRITICAL · CVSS 9.8
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2017-05-23T04:29:01.617 · Last modified 2026-06-17T00:53:52.680

Summary

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.

Affected products

artifex — ghostscript

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References

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