ubuntu · CVE-2016-7976

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Priority: medium Published: 2016-10-06 00:00:00 UTC Updated: 2025-08-25 22:11:48 UTC

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Freshness: upstream tracker timestamp is available; use API updated time as primary recency signal.

Tracker summary

CVE-2016-7976 medium priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (ghostscript), 5 status rows across 5 suites (precise, trusty, upstream, xenial, yakkety): released 4, needs-triage 1.

Description:

The PS Interpreter in Ghostscript 9.18 and 9.20 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via crafted userparams.

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