Vulnerability Details CVE-2020-16296
A buffer overflow vulnerability in GetNumWrongData() in contrib/lips4/gdevlips.c of Artifex Software GhostScript from 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.
Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score
EPSS Score 0.007
EPSS Ranking 70.9%
CVSS Severity
CVSS v3 Score 5.5
CVSS v2 Score 4.3
References
- https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=701792
- https://cgit.ghostscript.com/cgi-bin/cgit.cgi/ghostpdl.git/tree/contrib/lips4/gdevlips.c?h=ghostscript-9.18#n163
- https://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git;a=commit;h=9f39ed4a92578a020ae10459643e1fe72573d134
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/08/msg00032.html
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202008-20
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4469-1/
- https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4748
- https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=701792
- https://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=9f39ed4a92578a020ae10459643e1fe72573d134
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/08/msg00032.html
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202008-20
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4469-1/
- https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4748
Products affected by CVE-2020-16296
-
cpe:2.3:a:artifex:ghostscript:9.18
-
cpe:2.3:a:artifex:ghostscript:9.19
-
cpe:2.3:a:artifex:ghostscript:9.20
-
cpe:2.3:a:artifex:ghostscript:9.21
-
cpe:2.3:a:artifex:ghostscript:9.22
-
cpe:2.3:a:artifex:ghostscript:9.23
-
cpe:2.3:a:artifex:ghostscript:9.24
-
cpe:2.3:a:artifex:ghostscript:9.25
-
cpe:2.3:a:artifex:ghostscript:9.26
-
cpe:2.3:a:artifex:ghostscript:9.27
-
cpe:2.3:a:artifex:ghostscript:9.28
-
cpe:2.3:a:artifex:ghostscript:9.50
-
cpe:2.3:a:artifex:ghostscript:9.51
-
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04
-
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.04
-
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:20.04
-
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:10.0
-
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:9.0