CVE-2009-4897: Artifex Afpl Ghostscript

High severity, CVSS 9.3. EPSS: 6.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Buffer overflow in gs/psi/iscan.c in Ghostscript 8.64 and earlier allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (memory corruption) via a crafted PDF document containing a long name.

Affected products

• Artifex Afpl Ghostscript: version 6.0 only; version 6.01 only; version 6.50 only; version 7.00 only; version 7.03 only; version 7.04 only; …
• Artifex Ghostscript Fonts: version 8.11 only
• Artifex Gpl Ghostscript: up to and including 8.64; version 8.01 only; version 8.15 only; version 8.50 only; version 8.51 only; version 8.54 only; …

Published 2010-07-22. Last modified 2026-06-16.