Medium severity · published Aug 13, 2020
CVE-2020-16291
A buffer overflow vulnerability in contrib/gdevdj9.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
5.5
CVSS
2.3%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
A buffer overflow vulnerability in contrib/gdevdj9.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.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Attack vector
Local
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
Required
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)2.3% · higher than 83% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
DL
Debian Linux · Debian
9.0; 10.0 · source: NVD
GH
Ghostscript · Artifex
9.18 before 9.52 · source: NVD
UL
Ubuntu Linux · Canonical
16.04; 18.04; 20.04 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-16291
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-16291
Broken Link
http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git;h=4f73e8b4d578e69a17f452fa60d2130c5faaefd6
Exploit
https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=701787
Patch
https://cgit.ghostscript.com/cgi-bin/cgit.cgi/ghostpdl.git/commit/?id=4f73e8b4d578e69a17f452fa60d2130c5faaefd6
Product
https://cgit.ghostscript.com/cgi-bin/cgit.cgi/ghostpdl.git/tree/contrib/gdevdj9.c?h=ghostpdl-9.18#n824
Mailing List
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/08/msg00032.html
Third Party Advisory
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202008-20
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