CVSS 3.1
5.5 mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HCVE-2020-16291
Medium (5.5). EPSS 2.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
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.
Severity
- EPSS
- 2.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 83% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-787
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- artifex:ghostscript
- canonical:ubuntu_linux
- debian:debian_linux
References
- http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git;h=4f73e8b4d578e69a17f452fa60d2130c5faaefd6
- https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=701787
- https://cgit.ghostscript.com/cgi-bin/cgit.cgi/ghostpdl.git/commit/?id=4f73e8b4d578e69a17f452fa60d2130c5faaefd6
- https://cgit.ghostscript.com/cgi-bin/cgit.cgi/ghostpdl.git/tree/contrib/gdevdj9.c?h=ghostpdl-9.18#n824
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/08/msg00032.html