First published: Thu Aug 13 2020(Updated: )
A Division by Zero vulnerability in bj10v_print_page() 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.
Credit: cve@mitre.org cve@mitre.org
Affected Software | Affected Version | How to fix |
---|---|---|
Artifex Ghostscript | <9.52 | |
Debian Debian Linux | =9.0 | |
Debian Debian Linux | =10.0 | |
Canonical Ubuntu Linux | =16.04 | |
Canonical Ubuntu Linux | =18.04 | |
Canonical Ubuntu Linux | =20.04 | |
redhat/ghostscript | <9.51 | 9.51 |
debian/ghostscript | 9.53.3~dfsg-7+deb11u7 10.0.0~dfsg-11+deb12u4 10.0.0~dfsg-11+deb12u5 10.04.0~dfsg-1 |
https://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git;a=commit;h=19cebe708b9ee3d9e0f8bcdd79dbc6ef9ddc70d2
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The vulnerability ID for this issue is CVE-2020-16299.
The severity of CVE-2020-16299 is medium.
CVE-2020-16299 allows a remote attacker to cause a denial of service via a crafted PDF file in Artifex Software GhostScript.
Updating to version 9.51 of Artifex Software GhostScript fixes CVE-2020-16299.
You can find more information about CVE-2020-16299 at the following references: [link1], [link2], [link3].