CVE-2020-16305

5.5MEDIUM

Key Information

Vendor
Artifex
Status
Ghostscript
Vendor
CVE Published:
13 August 2020

Summary

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.

Refferences

https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=701819
x_refsource_MISC
https://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Ba=commitdif...
x_refsource_MISC
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/08/msg0...
mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4748
vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIAN
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202008-20
vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4469-1/
vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU

CVSS V3.1

Score:
5.5
Severity:
MEDIUM
Confidentiality:
None
Integrity:
None
Availability:
High
Attack Vector:
Local
Attack Complexity:
Low
Privileges Required:
None
User Interaction:
Required
Scope:
Unchanged

Timeline

  • Vulnerability published

  • Vulnerability Reserved

Collectors

NVD DatabaseMitre Database
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