CVE-2016-7979
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CVE Details
| Release Date: | 2016-10-04 | |
| Impact: | Moderate | What is this? |
Description
Ghostscript before 9.21 might allow remote attackers to bypass theSAFER mode protection mechanism and consequently execute arbitrary code by leveraging type confusion in .initialize_dsc_parser.
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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 6 (ghostscript) | ELSA-2017-0014 | 2017-01-04 |
| Oracle Linux version 7 (ghostscript) | ELSA-2017-0013 | 2017-01-04 |
| Oracle VM version 3.3 (ghostscript) | OVMSA-2017-0002 | 2017-01-04 |
| Oracle VM version 3.4 (ghostscript) | OVMSA-2017-0002 | 2017-01-04 |
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