Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Aug 13, 2020· Updated Mar 4, 2025
CVE-2020-16291
CVE-2020-16291
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.
Affected products
9- Artifex Software/GhostScriptdescription
- osv-coords8 versionspkg:rpm/almalinux/ghostscriptpkg:rpm/almalinux/ghostscript-docpkg:rpm/almalinux/ghostscript-tools-dvipdfpkg:rpm/almalinux/ghostscript-tools-fontspkg:rpm/almalinux/ghostscript-tools-printingpkg:rpm/almalinux/ghostscript-x11pkg:rpm/almalinux/libgspkg:rpm/almalinux/libgs-devel
< 9.27-1.el8+ 7 more
- (no CPE)range: < 9.27-1.el8
- (no CPE)range: < 9.27-1.el8
- (no CPE)range: < 9.27-1.el8
- (no CPE)range: < 9.27-1.el8
- (no CPE)range: < 9.27-1.el8
- (no CPE)range: < 9.27-1.el8
- (no CPE)range: < 9.27-1.el8
- (no CPE)range: < 9.27-1.el8
Patches
0No patches discovered yet.
Vulnerability mechanics
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References
7- security.gentoo.org/glsa/202008-20mitrevendor-advisory
- usn.ubuntu.com/4469-1/mitrevendor-advisory
- www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4748mitrevendor-advisory
- lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/08/msg00032.htmlmitremailing-list
- bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgimitre
- cgit.ghostscript.com/cgi-bin/cgit.cgi/ghostpdl.git/commit/mitre
- cgit.ghostscript.com/cgi-bin/cgit.cgi/ghostpdl.git/tree/contrib/gdevdj9.cmitre
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