CVE-2020-17538
- State
- Published
- Severity
- Not scored
- Published
- Aug 13, 2020
- Updated
- Mar 24, 2025
- Reserved
- Aug 12, 2020
Description
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.
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=701792
- https://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git;a=commit;h=9f39ed4a92578a020ae10459643e1fe72573d134
- [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/lips4/gdevlips.c?h=ghostscript-9.18#n148
- https://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=9f39ed4a92578a020ae10459643e1fe72573d134
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