CVE-2017-6196: Artifex Afpl Ghostscript

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 1.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Multiple use-after-free vulnerabilities in the gx_image_enum_begin function in base/gxipixel.c in Ghostscript before ecceafe3abba2714ef9b432035fe0739d9b1a283 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted PostScript document.

Affected products

• Artifex Afpl Ghostscript: up to and including 8452f9238959a4d518af365812bf031fe4d8d4b7

Published 2017-02-24. Last modified 2026-06-17.