CVE-2008-6679: Ghostscript

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 4.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Buffer overflow in the BaseFont writer module in Ghostscript 8.62, and possibly other versions, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (ps2pdf crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted Postscript file.

Affected products

• Ghostscript Ghostscript: version 8.62 only

Published 2009-04-08. Last modified 2026-06-16.