CVE-2021-45944: Artifex Ghostscript

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 1.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Ghostscript GhostPDL 9.50 through 9.53.3 has a use-after-free in sampled_data_sample (called from sampled_data_continue and interp).

Affected products

• Artifex Ghostscript: from 9.50, up to and including 9.53.3
• Debian Debian Linux: version 9.0 only; version 10.0 only; version 11.0 only

Published 2022-01-01. Last modified 2026-06-17.