CVE-2020-15900

Name
CVE-2020-15900
Description
A memory corruption issue was found in Artifex Ghostscript 9.50 and 9.52. Use of a non-standard PostScript operator can allow overriding of file access controls. The 'rsearch' calculation for the 'post' size resulted in a size that was too large, and could underflow to max uint32_t. This was fixed in commit 5d499272b95a6b890a1397e11d20937de000d31b.
NVD Severity
high
Other trackers
CVE, NVD, CERT, CVE Details, CIRCL, Arch Linux, Debian, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE (Bugzilla), SUSE (CVE), Mageia
Mailing lists
oss-security, full-disclosure, bugtraq
Exploits
Exploit DB, Metasploit
Forges
GitHub (code, issues), Aports (code, issues)

References

Type URI
Patch https://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git;a=commitdiff;h=5d499272b95a6b890a1397e11d20937de000d31b
Patch https://github.com/ArtifexSoftware/ghostpdl/commits/master/psi/zstring.c
Mailing List http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git;a=log
Patch https://github.com/ArtifexSoftware/ghostpdl/commit/5d499272b95a6b890a1397e11d20937de000d31b
Vendor Advisory https://artifex.com/security-advisories/CVE-2020-15900
SUSE http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-08/msg00004.html
SUSE http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-08/msg00006.html
UBUNTU https://usn.ubuntu.com/4445-1/
GENTOO https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202008-20

Match rules

CPE URI Source package Min version Max version
cpe:2.3:a:artifex:ghostscript:9.50:*:*:*:*:*:*:* ghostscript == None == 9.50
cpe:2.3:a:artifex:ghostscript:9.52:*:*:*:*:*:*:* ghostscript == None == 9.52

Vulnerable and fixed packages

Source package Branch Version Maintainer Status
ghostscript 3.12-main 9.52-r1 Cameron Banta <cbanta@gmail.com> fixed
ghostscript 3.11-main 9.50-r1 Cameron Banta <cbanta@gmail.com> fixed