CVE-2016-8602

ghostscript: check for sufficient params in .sethalftone5

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Severity

Moderate

Red Hat Product Security

5.8

CVSS 3.0

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Published · October 8, 2016

Updated · May 13, 2026

Description

It was found that ghostscript did not sufficiently check the validity of parameters given to the .sethalftone5 function. A specially crafted postscript document could cause a crash, or execute arbitrary code in the context of the gs process.

CVSS score applicability

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Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 3.0 · 5.8
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L

CVSS 2.0 · 5.1
AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

CWE-20 · Improper Input Validation