CVE-2016-7976 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

The PS Interpreter in Ghostscript 9.18 and 9.20 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via crafted userparams.

No CVSS v4.0

No CVSS v3.1

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact High

Integrity Impact High

Availability Impact High

User Interaction Required

Access Vector Network

Access Complexity Medium

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact Partial

Integrity Impact Partial

Availability Impact Partial

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.4965.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor Product Default status Versions

n/a

n/a

affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`n/a`	affected	—

Configuration 1 [-]

OR	cpe:2.3:a:artifex:ghostscript:9.18:::::::*
	cpe:2.3:a:artifex:ghostscript:9.20:::::::*

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Project Subscriptions

Vendors	Products
Artifex Subscribe	Ghostscript Subscribe

Advisories

Source	ID	Title
Debian DLA	DLA-674-1	ghostscript security update
Debian DSA	DSA-3691-1	ghostscript security update
Ubuntu USN	USN-3148-1	Ghostscript vulnerabilities

Fixes

Solution

No solution given by the vendor.

Workaround

No workaround given by the vendor.

References

Link	Providers
http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=user/chrisl/ghostpdl.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=6d444c273da5499a4cd72f21cb6d4c9a5256807d
http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3691
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/10/19/6
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95332
https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=697178
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-7976
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201702-31
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-7976

History

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Projects

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MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2017-08-07T20:00:00

Updated: 2024-08-06T02:13:21.340Z

Reserved: 2016-09-09T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2016-7976

Vulnrichment

No data.

NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2017-08-07T20:29:01.090

Modified: 2025-04-20T01:37:25.860

Link: CVE-2016-7976

Redhat

Severity : Important

Publid Date: 2016-09-30T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2016-7976 - Bugzilla

OpenCVE Enrichment

No data.

Weaknesses

CWE-20

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