CVE-2020-16291

Name
CVE-2020-16291
Description
A buffer overflow vulnerability in contrib/gdevdj9.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.
NVD Severity
medium
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
Exploit https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=701787
Patch http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git;h=4f73e8b4d578e69a17f452fa60d2130c5faaefd6
MLIST https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/08/msg00032.html
DEBIAN https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4748
GENTOO https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202008-20
UBUNTU https://usn.ubuntu.com/4469-1/

Match rules

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

Vulnerable and fixed packages

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