VulnerabilityModified
CVE-2016-10218
Ghostscript 9.20 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and application crash) via a crafted file.
MEDIUM 5.5EPSS 1.27%
Does this matter?
Lower severity and a low EPSS score (1.27%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.
Description
The pdf14_pop_transparency_group function in base/gdevp14.c in the PDF Transparency module in Artifex Software, Inc. Ghostscript 9.20 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and application crash) via a crafted file.
- CVSS 3.0
- 5.5 MEDIUMCVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- EPSS
- 1.27% probability · 68th percentile
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-476
- Affected
- artifex/ghostscript
- Source
- cve@mitre.org
References
- http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=d621292fb2c8157d9899dcd83fd04dd250e30fe4
- https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=697444Exploit, Issue Tracking, Patch
- http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=d621292fb2c8157d9899dcd83fd04dd250e30fe4
- https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=697444Exploit, Issue Tracking, Patch
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.