Use After Free Affecting ghostscript-cups package, versions <0:9.07-20.el7_3.1
Threat Intelligence
EPSS
8.21% (95th
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-CENTOS7-GHOSTSCRIPTCUPS-2076057
- published 26 Jul 2021
- disclosed 30 Sep 2016
Introduced: 30 Sep 2016
CVE-2016-7978 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade Centos:7 ghostscript-cups to version 0:9.07-20.el7_3.1 or higher.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream ghostscript-cups package and not the ghostscript-cups package as distributed by Centos.
See How to fix? for Centos:7 relevant fixed versions and status.
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.
References
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95336
- https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=697179
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-7978
- http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3691
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201702-31
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/10/05/15
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0013.html
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:0013