CVSS 3.1
5.5 mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HCVE-2020-16296
Medium (5.5). EPSS 2.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
A buffer overflow vulnerability in GetNumWrongData() in contrib/lips4/gdevlips.c of Artifex Software GhostScript from 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
- 2.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 81% 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
- https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=701792
- https://cgit.ghostscript.com/cgi-bin/cgit.cgi/ghostpdl.git/tree/contrib/lips4/gdevlips.c?h=ghostscript-9.18#n163
- https://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git;a=commit;h=9f39ed4a92578a020ae10459643e1fe72573d134
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/08/msg00032.html
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202008-20