CVE-2016-7977

Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-7977
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2016-7977.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2016-7977
Downstream
BELL (1)
DEBIAN (1)
MGASA (1)
openSUSE (1)
RHSA (2)
SUSE (1)
UBUNTU (1)
Related
Published
2017-05-23T04:29:01Z
Modified
2026-04-16T06:21:39Z
Severity
  • 5.5 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

Ghostscript before 9.21 might allow remote attackers to bypass the SAFER mode protection mechanism and consequently read arbitrary files via the use of the .libfile operator in a crafted postscript document.

References

Affected packages

Git /

Affected ranges

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2016-7977.json"
unresolved_ranges
[
    {
        "events":  [
            {
                "introduced":  "0"
            },
            {
                "last_affected":  "9.20"
            }
        ]
    },
    {
        "events":  [
            {
                "introduced":  "0"
            },
            {
                "fixed":  "9.21"
            }
        ]
    }
]