CVEvulnerability
CVE-2020-16297
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Analyzed
- 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 FloydSteinbergDitheringC() in contrib/gdevbjca.c of Artifex Software GhostScript v9.18 to 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 (>= 9.18 < 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=701800 Exploit, Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory
- https://cgit.ghostscript.com/cgi-bin/cgit.cgi/ghostpdl.git/commit/?id=bf72f1a3dd5392ee8291e3b1518a0c2c5dc6ba39 Patch
- https://cgit.ghostscript.com/cgi-bin/cgit.cgi/ghostpdl.git/tree/contrib/gdevbjca.c?h=ghostpdl-9.18#n659 Product
- https://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git;a=commitdiff;h=bf72f1a3dd5392ee8291e3b1518a0c2c5dc6ba39 Broken Link
- 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=701800 Exploit, Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory
- https://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=bf72f1a3dd5392ee8291e3b1518a0c2c5dc6ba39 Broken Link
- 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