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Artifex Ghostscript: (CVE-2016-7979) Remote Code Execution

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
May 23, 2017
Added
Oct 10, 2018
Modified
Aug 11, 2025

Description

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.

Solution

ghostscript-upgrade-9_21
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