CVEvulnerability
CVE-2020-16302
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-120
Description
A buffer overflow vulnerability in jetp3852_print_page() in devices/gdev3852.c of Artifex Software GhostScript v9.50 allows a remote attacker to escalate privileges via a crafted PDF file. This is fixed in v9.51.
Affected configurations
• artifex ghostscript 9.50
• 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-120 Buffer Copy without Checking Size of Input weakness
References
- https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=701815 Exploit, Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory
- https://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=366ad48d076c1aa4c8f83c65011258a04e348207 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=701815 Exploit, Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory
- https://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=366ad48d076c1aa4c8f83c65011258a04e348207 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