Vulnerability Details CVE-2020-16305
A buffer overflow vulnerability in pcx_write_rle() in contrib/japanese/gdev10v.c of Artifex Software GhostScript 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 0.005
EPSS Ranking 64.0%
CVSS Severity
CVSS v3 Score 5.5
CVSS v2 Score 4.3
References
- https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=701819
- https://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=2793769ff107d8d22dadd30c6e68cd781b569550
- 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=701819
- https://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=2793769ff107d8d22dadd30c6e68cd781b569550
- 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-2020-16305
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cpe:2.3:a:artifex:ghostscript:9.50
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cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04
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cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.04
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cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:20.04
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cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:10.0
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cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:9.0