PT-2020-5555

CVE-2020-16296

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Published

2020-08-13

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Updated

2025-03-24

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 versions 9.50
Description The issue is related to a buffer overflow in the GetNumWrongData() function, located in contrib/lips4/gdevlips.c, which can be exploited by a remote attacker to cause a denial of service. This can be achieved via a crafted PDF file.
Recommendations For Artifex Software GhostScript version 9.50, update to version 9.51 to resolve the issue. As a temporary workaround, consider restricting the processing of crafted PDF files to minimize the risk of exploitation.
Exploitability
Exploit
Fix
Impacts
Vendors
Affected products
Weakness enumeration
Related identifiers
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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