CVEvulnerability
CVE-2020-16287
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2020-08-13
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 4.3 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-787
Description
A buffer overflow vulnerability in lprn_is_black() in contrib/lips4/gdevlprn.c of Artifex Software GhostScript v9.50 allows a remote attacker to cause a denial of service via a crafted PDF file. This is fixed in v9.51.
Affected configurations
• artifex ghostscript (< 9.52)
• debian debian linux 9.0
• debian debian linux 10.0
• canonical ubuntu linux 16.04
• canonical ubuntu linux 18.04
• canonical ubuntu linux 20.04
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-787 Out-of-bounds Write weakness
References
- https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=701785 Exploit, Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory
- https://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=450da26a76286a8342ec0864b3d113856709f8f6 git.ghostscript.com
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/08/msg00032.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202008-20 Third Party Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4469-1/ Third Party Advisory
- https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4748 Third Party Advisory
- https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=701785 Exploit, Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory
- https://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=450da26a76286a8342ec0864b3d113856709f8f6 git.ghostscript.com
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/08/msg00032.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202008-20 Third Party Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4469-1/ Third Party Advisory
- https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4748 Third Party Advisory