CVE-2016-7979: Artifex Ghostscript

Critical severity, CVSS 9.8. EPSS: 6.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Ghostscript before 9.21 might allow remote attackers to bypass the SAFER mode protection mechanism and consequently execute arbitrary code by leveraging type confusion in .initialize_dsc_parser.

Affected products

• Artifex Ghostscript: up to and including 9.20

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