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DEBIAN-CVE-2016-7978
Use-after-free vulnerability in Ghostscript 9.20 might allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via vectors related to a reference leak in .se...
Original description
The description as published by the source.
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.
Source: OSV.dev (Open Source Vulnerabilities) OSV
Affected packages
Debian:12
ghostscript
[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"9.19~dfsg-3.1"}]}]
Debian:13
ghostscript
[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"9.19~dfsg-3.1"}]}]
Debian:14
ghostscript
[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"9.19~dfsg-3.1"}]}]
References
- advisory security-tracker.debian.org