Use After Free Affecting ghostscript package, versions [0,9.26rc1)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.04% (6th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-GHOSTSCRIPT-2370656
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed3 Sept 2020
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 3 Sep 2020

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

How to fix?

Upgrade ghostscript to version 9.26rc1 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Use After Free. 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 Scores

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