CVE-2015-3228: Artifex Afpl Ghostscript

Medium severity, CVSS 6.8. EPSS: 3.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Integer overflow in the gs_heap_alloc_bytes function in base/gsmalloc.c in Ghostscript 9.15 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a crafted Postscript (ps) file, as demonstrated by using the ps2pdf command, which triggers an out-of-bounds read or write.

Affected products

• Artifex Afpl Ghostscript: up to and including 9.15

Published 2015-08-11. Last modified 2026-06-17.