CVE-2020-16297

Name
CVE-2020-16297
Description
A buffer overflow vulnerability in FloydSteinbergDitheringC() in contrib/gdevbjca.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.
NVD Severity
unknown
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=701800
Patch https://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git;a=commitdiff;h=bf72f1a3dd5392ee8291e3b1518a0c2c5dc6ba39
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/
cve@mitre.org https://cgit.ghostscript.com/cgi-bin/cgit.cgi/ghostpdl.git/commit/?id=bf72f1a3dd5392ee8291e3b1518a0c2c5dc6ba39
cve@mitre.org https://cgit.ghostscript.com/cgi-bin/cgit.cgi/ghostpdl.git/tree/contrib/gdevbjca.c?h=ghostpdl-9.18#n659
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 https://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=bf72f1a3dd5392ee8291e3b1518a0c2c5dc6ba39

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:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* ghostscript >= None < 9.52
cpe:2.3:a:artifex:ghostscript:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* ghostscript >= 9.18 < 9.52

Vulnerable and fixed packages

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