Vulnerability Details CVE-2020-17538
A buffer overflow vulnerability in GetNumSameData() 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 0.011
EPSS Ranking 76.5%
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#n148
- 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-2020-17538
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cpe:2.3:a:artifex:ghostscript:9.18
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cpe:2.3:a:artifex:ghostscript:9.19
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cpe:2.3:a:artifex:ghostscript:9.20
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cpe:2.3:a:artifex:ghostscript:9.21
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cpe:2.3:a:artifex:ghostscript:9.22
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cpe:2.3:a:artifex:ghostscript:9.23
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cpe:2.3:a:artifex:ghostscript:9.24
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cpe:2.3:a:artifex:ghostscript:9.25
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cpe:2.3:a:artifex:ghostscript:9.26
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cpe:2.3:a:artifex:ghostscript:9.27
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cpe:2.3:a:artifex:ghostscript:9.28
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cpe:2.3:a:artifex:ghostscript:9.50
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cpe:2.3:a:artifex:ghostscript:9.51
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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