CVEvulnerability
CVE-2020-27792
7.1 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2022-08-19
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 7.1 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 7.1 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-119
Description
A heap-based buffer overwrite vulnerability was found in GhostScript's lp8000_print_page() function in the gdevlp8k.c file. This flaw allows an attacker to trick a user into opening a crafted PDF file, triggering the heap buffer overflow that could lead to memory corruption or a denial of service.
Affected configurations
• artifex ghostscript (<= 9.50)
• debian debian linux 10.0
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-119 Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer weakness
References
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:4362 access.redhat.com
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-27792 access.redhat.com
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2247179 bugzilla.redhat.com
- https://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git;a=commitdiff;h=4f6bc662909ab79e8fbe9822afb36e8a0eafc2b7 git.ghostscript.com
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-27792 access.redhat.com
- https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=701844 bugs.ghostscript.com
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2247179 bugzilla.redhat.com
- https://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=4f6bc662909ab79e8fbe9822afb36e8a0eafc2b7 git.ghostscript.com
- https://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git;a=commitdiff;h=4f6bc662909ab79e8fbe9822afb36e8a0eafc2b7 git.ghostscript.com
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/09/msg00005.html lists.debian.org