CVE-2020-16296

Name
CVE-2020-16296
Description
A buffer overflow vulnerability in GetNumWrongData() in contrib/lips4/gdevlips.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
Mailing lists
Exploits
Forges
GitHub (code, issues), Aports (code, issues)

References

Type URI
Patch https://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git;a=commit;h=9f39ed4a92578a020ae10459643e1fe72573d134
Exploit https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=701792
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