CVE-2010-4054: Artifex Afpl Ghostscript

Medium severity, CVSS 4.3. EPSS: 2.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The gs_type2_interpret function in Ghostscript allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (incorrect pointer dereference and application crash) via crafted font data in a compressed data stream, aka bug 691043.

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 6.0 only; version 8.11 only
• Artifex Gpl Ghostscript: version 8.01 only; version 8.15 only; version 8.50 only; version 8.51 only; version 8.54 only; version 8.56 only; …

Published 2010-10-23. Last modified 2026-06-16.