Use After Free Affecting ghostscript package, versions <9.26~dfsg-1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.45% (36th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIANUNSTABLE-GHOSTSCRIPT-609564
  • published3 Sept 2020
  • disclosed3 Sept 2020

Introduced: 3 Sep 2020

CVE-2020-14373  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-416  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:unstable ghostscript to version 9.26~dfsg-1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream ghostscript package and not the ghostscript package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:unstable relevant fixed versions and status.

A use after free was found in igc_reloc_struct_ptr() of psi/igc.c of ghostscript-9.25. A local attacker could supply a specially crafted PDF file to cause a denial of service.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1