PT-2020-5552

CVE-2020-16297

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Published

2020-08-13

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Updated

2025-03-14

Description by

CVSS 3.1
5.5
Medium
MetricsAV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Artifex Software GhostScript version 9.50
Description A buffer overflow issue in the FloydSteinbergDitheringC() function, located in contrib/gdevbjca.c, allows a remote attacker to cause a denial of service by using a crafted PDF file.
Recommendations For version 9.50, update to version 9.51 to resolve the issue.
Exploitability
Exploit
Fix
Impacts
Vendors
Affected products
Weakness enumeration
CWE-787: Out-of-bounds Write
Related identifiers
CVE-2020-16297
BDU:2021-01151
ALSA-2021:1852
ALT-PU-2020-3124
CESA-2021_1852
DLA-2335-1
DSA-4748-1
MGASA-2020-0344
RHSA-2021:1852
RHSA-2021_1852
RLSA-2021:1852
USN-4469-1
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