CVE-2020-16298

Name
CVE-2020-16298
Description
A buffer overflow vulnerability in mj_color_correct() in contrib/japanese/gdevmjc.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=701799
Patch https://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git;a=commit;h=849e74e5ab450dd581942192da7101e0664fa5af
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 edge-main 9.51-r0 None fixed
ghostscript 3.22-main 9.51-r0 None fixed
ghostscript 3.21-main 9.51-r0 None fixed
ghostscript 3.20-main 9.51-r0 None fixed
ghostscript 3.19-main 9.51-r0 None fixed
ghostscript 3.18-main 9.51-r0 None fixed
ghostscript 3.17-main 9.51-r0 None fixed
ghostscript 3.11-main 9.50-r1 Cameron Banta <cbanta@gmail.com> possibly vulnerable
ghostscript 3.11-main 9.50-r0 Cameron Banta <cbanta@gmail.com> possibly vulnerable