CVE-2020-16304

Name
CVE-2020-16304
Description
A buffer overflow vulnerability in image_render_color_thresh() in base/gxicolor.c of Artifex Software GhostScript v9.50 allows a remote attacker to escalate privileges via a crafted eps 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
Patch http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git;a=commitdiff;h=027c546e0dd11e0526f1780a7f3c2c66acffe209
Exploit https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=701816
Third Party Advisory https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/08/msg00032.html
Third Party Advisory https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4748
Third Party Advisory 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