CVE-2016-8602

high

Published 2017-04-14 · Modified 2026-05-13

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CVSS v3

7.8

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

CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

7.8

Description

The .sethalftone5 function in psi/zht2.c in Ghostscript before 9.21 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted Postscript document that calls .sethalftone5 with an empty operand stack.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

75%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact

OS	Version	Status	Fixed in
sles		affected
debian	bookworm	fixed	`9.19~dfsg-3.1`
debian	bullseye	fixed	`9.19~dfsg-3.1`
debian	forky	fixed	`9.19~dfsg-3.1`
debian	sid	fixed	`9.19~dfsg-3.1`
debian	trixie	fixed	`9.19~dfsg-3.1`

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
artifex	ghostscript	`{"endIncluding":"9.20"}`

References

CWEs

CWE-704

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.