Denial of Service Vulnerability in Ghostscript 9.20 via Crafted PDF Transparency Module

CVE-2016-10220 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:N/AC:M/AU:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

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.

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