CVE-2020-16297
- Source
- https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-16297
- Import Source
- https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2020-16297.json
- JSON Data
- https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2020-16297
- Downstream
- Related
- Published
- 2020-08-13T03:15:13.477Z
- Modified
- 2026-03-13T00:32:37.432649Z
- Severity
-
- 5.5 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
- Summary
- [none]
- Details
-
A buffer overflow vulnerability in FloydSteinbergDitheringC() in contrib/gdevbjca.c of Artifex Software GhostScript v9.18 to v9.50 allows a remote attacker to cause a denial of service via a crafted PDF file. This is fixed in v9.51.
- References
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- https://cgit.ghostscript.com/cgi-bin/cgit.cgi/ghostpdl.git/tree/contrib/gdevbjca.c?h=ghostpdl-9.18#n659
- https://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git;a=commitdiff;h=bf72f1a3dd5392ee8291e3b1518a0c2c5dc6ba39
- https://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=bf72f1a3dd5392ee8291e3b1518a0c2c5dc6ba39
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/08/msg00032.html
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202008-20
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4469-1/
- https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4748
- https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=701800
- https://cgit.ghostscript.com/cgi-bin/cgit.cgi/ghostpdl.git/commit/?id=bf72f1a3dd5392ee8291e3b1518a0c2c5dc6ba39
Affected packages
Git /
Database specific
source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2020-16297.json"
unresolved_ranges
[
{
"events": [
{
"introduced": "9.18"
},
{
"fixed": "9.52"
}
]
},
{
"events": [
{
"introduced": "0"
},
{
"last_affected": "9.0"
}
]
},
{
"events": [
{
"introduced": "0"
},
{
"last_affected": "10.0"
}
]
},
{
"events": [
{
"introduced": "0"
},
{
"last_affected": "16.04"
}
]
},
{
"events": [
{
"introduced": "0"
},
{
"last_affected": "18.04"
}
]
},
{
"events": [
{
"introduced": "0"
},
{
"last_affected": "20.04"
}
]
}
]