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CVE-2016-10219

20
FAUCET Score

CVE-2016-10219 is a denial-of-service vulnerability affecting Artifex Ghostscript versions up to 9.20. A remote attacker can trigger a divide-by-zero error and application crash by providing a specially crafted file to the intersect function in base/gxfill.c. Rated Medium severity (CVSS 5.5), it requires user interaction and local access for exploitation, leading to high availability impact. There is currently no known active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this vulnerability.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
9.20CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:artifex:ghostscript:9.20:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

5.5MEDIUM

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

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
1.8
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.86%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
77.1%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0186 is in the 87th percentile among its peer group of 5,760 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.1 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Vendor Patches (4)

redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: ghostscript
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: ghostscript
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: ghostscript
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise 2Fixed in: ghostscript

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2016-10219Low

ghostscript: Divide-by-zero in the intersect function

Dec 23, 2016

References

bugs.ghostscript.com / show_bug.cgi
ExploitIssue TrackingPatch
security.gentoo.org / glsa/201708-06
debian.org / security/2017/dsa-3838
ghostscript.com / cgi-bin/findgit.cgi
Vendor Advisory