Out-of-bounds Write The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package ghostscript  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU2004-GHOSTSCRIPT-1056149
  • published13 Jan 2020
  • disclosed13 Jan 2020

Introduced: 13 Jan 2020

CVE-2020-6851  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-787  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:20.04.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream ghostscript package and not the ghostscript package as distributed by Ubuntu.

OpenJPEG through 2.3.1 has a heap-based buffer overflow in opj_t1_clbl_decode_processor in openjp2/t1.c because of lack of opj_j2k_update_image_dimensions validation.