CVE-2016-10220

MEDIUM 5.5CVE-2016-10220 · Published 03/04/2017 · updated 17/06/2026

In short

CVE-2016-10220 is a MEDIUM (CVSS 5.5) vulnerability affecting ghostscript (artifex).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 1.9%, higher than 80.1% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
ghostscript artifex	`= 9.20`	No fix yet

Description

The gs_makewordimagedevice function in base/gsdevmem.c 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 that is mishandled in the PDF Transparency module.

References

debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3838
ghostscript.com/cgi-bin/findgit.cgi · Issue Tracking
bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi · Exploit
security.gentoo.org/glsa/201708-06

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Package

Affected versions

Patched versions

ghostscript

artifex

= 9.20

No fix yet

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