vulnerability

Ubuntu: USN-3148-1 (CVE-2016-7978): Ghostscript vulnerabilities

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Oct 11, 2016
Added
Dec 2, 2016
Modified
Mar 27, 2026

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.

Solutions

ubuntu-upgrade-ghostscriptubuntu-upgrade-ghostscript-xubuntu-upgrade-libgs9ubuntu-upgrade-libgs9-common
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