CVE-2016-10218: Artifex Ghostscript

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 1.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The pdf14_pop_transparency_group function in base/gdevp14.c in the PDF Transparency module in Artifex Software, Inc. Ghostscript 9.20 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and application crash) via a crafted file.

Affected products

• Artifex Ghostscript: version 9.20 only

Published 2017-04-03. Last modified 2026-06-17.