CVE-2020-16291
- State
- Published
- Severity
- Not scored
- Published
- Aug 13, 2020
- Updated
- Mar 4, 2025
- Reserved
- Aug 3, 2020
Description
A buffer overflow vulnerability in contrib/gdevdj9.c of Artifex Software GhostScript 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.
Scores
The record has no CVSS score.
Weaknesses
The record names no weakness.
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
|---|---|
n/an/a |
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References
- https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=701787
- http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git;h=4f73e8b4d578e69a17f452fa60d2130c5faaefd6
- [debian-lts-announce] 20200820 [SECURITY] [DLA 2335-1] ghostscript security updatemailing-list
- DSA-4748vendor-advisory
- GLSA-202008-20vendor-advisory
- USN-4469-1vendor-advisory
- https://cgit.ghostscript.com/cgi-bin/cgit.cgi/ghostpdl.git/tree/contrib/gdevdj9.c?h=ghostpdl-9.18#n824
- https://cgit.ghostscript.com/cgi-bin/cgit.cgi/ghostpdl.git/commit/?id=4f73e8b4d578e69a17f452fa60d2130c5faaefd6
- http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Bh=4f73e8b4d578e69a17f452fa60d2130c5faaefd6
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