CVE-2017-6196

7.8 highEPSS 1.8%

High (7.8) in artifex afpl ghostscript. 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.

Severity

CVSS 3.0

7.8 high

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

EPSS: 1.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 78% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE: CWE-416
Published: 2017-02-24
Modified: 2026-06-17
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

Affected

artifex:afpl_ghostscript

References

http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Bh=ecceafe3abba2714ef9b432035fe0739d9b1a283
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96428
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037899
https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=697596
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201708-06

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