Use After Free Affecting ghostscript-cups package, versions <0:9.07-20.el7_3.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
8.41% (95th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL7-GHOSTSCRIPTCUPS-8001859
  • published17 Sept 2024
  • disclosed30 Sept 2016

Introduced: 30 Sep 2016

CVE-2016-7978  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-416  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade RHEL:7 ghostscript-cups to version 0:9.07-20.el7_3.1 or higher.
This issue was patched in RHSA-2017:0013.

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 RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL: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.