Out-of-bounds Write Affecting ghostscript package, versions [0,9.51)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.38% (74th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-GHOSTSCRIPT-2370689
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed13 Aug 2020
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 13 Aug 2020

CVE-2020-16305  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-787  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade ghostscript to version 9.51 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Out-of-bounds Write. A buffer overflow vulnerability in pcx_write_rle() in contrib/japanese/gdev10v.c of Artifex Software GhostScript v9.50 allows a remote attacker to cause a denial of service via a crafted PDF file. This is fixed in v9.51.

CVSS Scores

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