CVE-2016-7978
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CVE Details
| Release Date: | 2016-09-30 | |
| Impact: | Moderate | What is this? |
Description
Use-after-free vulnerability in Ghostscript 9.20 might allow remoteattackers to execute arbitrary code via vectors related to a reference leak in .setdevice.
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NOTE: The following CVSS metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.
CVSS v2 metrics
| Base Score: | 5.1 |
| Vector String: | AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P |
| Version: | 2.0 |
| Attack Vector: | Network |
| Attack Complexity: | High |
| Authentication: | None |
| Confidentiality Impact: | Partial |
| Integrity Impact: | Partial |
| Availability Impact: | Partial |
Errata information
| Platform | Errata | Release Date |
| Oracle Linux version 7 (ghostscript) | ELSA-2017-0013 | 2017-01-04 |
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