CVE-2020-16291 (NVD)

2020-08-13

A buffer overflow vulnerability in contrib/gdevdj9.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.

Products Ghostscript, Ubuntu_linux, Debian_linux
Type Out-of-bounds Write (CWE-787)
First patch - None (likely due to unavailable code)
Links • http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Bh=4f73e8b4d578e69a17f452fa60d2130c5faaefd6
• https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4748
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202008-20
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/4469-1/
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/08/msg00032.html