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CVE-2016-7978

ghostscript: reference leak in .setdevice allows use-after-free and remote code execution

Published Modified CWE 416
In the Trivy database since at least 24 Oct 2026, 07:11 UTCWhen it arrived before that build is not recorded.

Severity by source

NVD9.8CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Red Hat5.8CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L

Trivy's own label is CRITICAL. Rated critical by NVD. Rated lower by Red Hat (medium), Oracle (medium), Ubuntu (medium).

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.

Affected packages and fixed versions

SourcePackageFixed in
debian 11ghostscript9.19~dfsg-3.1
debian 12ghostscript9.19~dfsg-3.1
debian 13ghostscript9.19~dfsg-3.1
debian 14ghostscript9.19~dfsg-3.1
debian 7ghostscript9.05~dfsg-6.3+deb7u3
debian 8ghostscript9.06~dfsg-2+deb8u3
echoghostscript9.19~dfsg-3.1
Oracle Linux 7ghostscript, ghostscript-cups, ghostscript-devel and 2 more9.07-20.el7_3.1
root.io debian 12rootio-ghostscript9.19~dfsg-3.1
ubuntu 12.04ghostscript9.05~dfsg-0ubuntu4.4
ubuntu 14.04ghostscript9.10~dfsg-0ubuntu10.5
ubuntu 16.04ghostscript9.18~dfsg~0-0ubuntu2.2
Show all 18 entries from 14 sources
SourcePackageFixed in
debian 11ghostscript9.19~dfsg-3.1
debian 12ghostscript9.19~dfsg-3.1
debian 13ghostscript9.19~dfsg-3.1
debian 14ghostscript9.19~dfsg-3.1
debian 7ghostscript9.05~dfsg-6.3+deb7u3
debian 8ghostscript9.06~dfsg-2+deb8u3
echoghostscript9.19~dfsg-3.1
Oracle Linux 7ghostscript9.07-20.el7_3.1
Oracle Linux 7ghostscript-cups9.07-20.el7_3.1
Oracle Linux 7ghostscript-devel9.07-20.el7_3.1
Oracle Linux 7ghostscript-doc9.07-20.el7_3.1
Oracle Linux 7ghostscript-gtk9.07-20.el7_3.1
root.io debian 12rootio-ghostscript9.19~dfsg-3.1
ubuntu 12.04ghostscript9.05~dfsg-0ubuntu4.4
ubuntu 14.04ghostscript9.10~dfsg-0ubuntu10.5
ubuntu 16.04ghostscript9.18~dfsg~0-0ubuntu2.2
ubuntu 16.04-ESMghostscript9.18~dfsg~0-0ubuntu2.2
ubuntu 16.10ghostscript9.19~dfsg+1-0ubuntu6.2

References

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