CVE-2020-16305

Name
CVE-2020-16305
Description
A buffer overflow vulnerability in pcx_write_rle() in contrib/japanese/gdev10v.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=701819
Patch https://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git;a=commitdiff;h=2793769ff107d8d22dadd30c6e68cd781b569550
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