CVEvulnerability
CVE-2020-36773
9.8 CRITICAL
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2024-02-04
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 9.8 CRITICAL — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 3.1 (134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0)
- 9.8 CRITICAL — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-416, CWE-787
Description
Artifex Ghostscript before 9.53.0 has an out-of-bounds write and use-after-free in devices/vector/gdevtxtw.c (for txtwrite) because a single character code in a PDF document can map to more than one Unicode code point (e.g., for a ligature).
Affected configurations
• artifex ghostscript 9.51
• artifex ghostscript 9.52
• artifex ghostscript 9.52.1
• artifex ghostscript 9.53.0
Related
References
- https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=702229 Issue Tracking, Patch
- https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1177922 Issue Tracking
- https://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=8c7bd787defa071c96289b7da9397f673fddb874 Broken Link
- https://github.com/ArtifexSoftware/ghostpdl-downloads/releases/tag/gs9530 Release Notes
- https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=702229 Issue Tracking, Patch
- https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1177922 Issue Tracking
- https://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=8c7bd787defa071c96289b7da9397f673fddb874 Broken Link
- https://github.com/ArtifexSoftware/ghostpdl-downloads/releases/tag/gs9530 Release Notes