CVE-2016-7978: Artifex Ghostscript

Critical severity, CVSS 9.8. EPSS: 5.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Use-after-free vulnerability in Ghostscript 9.20 might allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via vectors related to a reference leak in .setdevice.

Affected products

• Artifex Ghostscript: version 9.20 only

Published 2017-05-23. Last modified 2026-06-17.