First published: Thu Aug 13 2020(Updated: )
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.
Credit: cve@mitre.org
Affected Software | Affected Version | How to fix |
---|---|---|
redhat/ghostscript | <9.51 | 9.51 |
debian/ghostscript | 9.53.3~dfsg-7+deb11u7 9.53.3~dfsg-7+deb11u9 10.0.0~dfsg-11+deb12u6 10.04.0~dfsg-2 | |
Ghostscript | >=9.18<9.52 | |
Debian Linux | =9.0 | |
Debian Linux | =10.0 | |
Ubuntu | =16.04 | |
Ubuntu | =18.04 | |
Ubuntu | =20.04 | |
Ghostscript | <9.52 |
https://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git;a=commitdiff;h=bf72f1a3dd5392ee8291e3b1518a0c2c5dc6ba39
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The vulnerability ID is CVE-2020-16297.
The affected software is GhostScript.
The severity rating of CVE-2020-16297 is medium.
A remote attacker can exploit this vulnerability by sending a crafted PDF file.
You can fix this vulnerability by updating to GhostScript version 9.51.