CVE-2021-45949

Ghostscript GhostPDL 9.50 through 9.54.0 has a heap-based buffer overflow in sampled_data_finish (called from sampled_data_continue and interp).

CVSS 3.1

5.5CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

EPSS

1.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 77% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-25)

CWEs

CWE-787, CWE-122

Published

2022-01-01

Modified

2026-10-08

Record from

the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

Affected

• artifex:ghostscript
• debian:debian_linux

References

• https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=34675
• https://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=2a3129365d3bc0d4a41f107ef175920d1505d1f7
• https://github.com/google/oss-fuzz-vulns/blob/main/vulns/ghostscript/OSV-2021-803.yaml
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/01/msg00006.html
• https://www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5038

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