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    CVE-2017-6196

    Multiple use-after-free vulnerabilities in the gx_image_enum_begin function in base/gxipixel.c in Ghostscript before ecceafe3abba2714ef9b432035fe0739d9b1a283 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted PostScript document.

    Published:Feb 20, 2017
    Last Modified:Apr 20, 2025
    EPS:Feb 24, 2017
    EPSS Score:0.00476
    CVSS Score:7.8

    Affected Products

    Vendor
    Artifex
    Product
    Afpl Ghostscript

    Exploits

    No exploit reference

    Common Weakness Enumeration

    CWE-416 Use After Free

    Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)

    No CAPEC recorded yet

    Related CVEs

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    CVE-2009-3743 (CVSS 9.3) — Off-by-one error in the Ins_MINDEX function in the TrueType bytecode interpreter in Ghostscript before 8.71 al…
    CVE-2010-2055 (CVSS 7.2) — Ghostscript 8.71 and earlier reads initialization files from the current working directory, which allows local…
    CVE-2010-4054 (CVSS 4.3) — The gs_type2_interpret function in Ghostscript allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (incorrect…
    CVE-2009-4897 (CVSS 9.3) — Buffer overflow in gs/psi/iscan.c in Ghostscript 8.64 and earlier allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary…

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
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    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
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    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
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    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High