CVE-2020-16298

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-16298
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2020-16298.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2020-16298
Downstream
Related
Published
2020-08-13T03:15:13Z
Modified
2026-10-16T02:49:01Z
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 mj_color_correct() in contrib/japanese/gdevmjc.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.

Database specific 
{
    "unresolved_ranges":  [
        {
            "cpes":  [
                "cpe:2.3:a:artifex:ghostscript:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
            ],
            "extracted_events":  [
                {
                    "range":  [
                        {
                            "fixed":  "9.52"
                        }
                    ],
                    "source":  "CPE_RANGE"
                }
            ],
            "vendor_product":  "artifex:ghostscript"
        },
        {
            "cpes":  [
                "cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04:*:*:*:esm:*:*:*",
                "cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*",
                "cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:20.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*"
            ],
            "extracted_events":  [
                {
                    "range":  [
                        {
                            "introduced":  "16.04"
                        },
                        {
                            "last_affected":  "16.04"
                        },
                        {
                            "introduced":  "18.04"
                        },
                        {
                            "last_affected":  "18.04"
                        },
                        {
                            "introduced":  "20.04"
                        },
                        {
                            "last_affected":  "20.04"
                        }
                    ],
                    "source":  "CPE_STRING"
                }
            ],
            "vendor_product":  "canonical:ubuntu_linux"
        },
        {
            "cpes":  [
                "cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:10.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
                "cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:9.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
            ],
            "extracted_events":  [
                {
                    "range":  [
                        {
                            "introduced":  "9.0"
                        },
                        {
                            "last_affected":  "9.0"
                        },
                        {
                            "introduced":  "10.0"
                        },
                        {
                            "last_affected":  "10.0"
                        }
                    ],
                    "source":  "CPE_STRING"
                }
            ],
            "vendor_product":  "debian:debian_linux"
        }
    ]
}
References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/artifexsoftware/ghostpdl-downloads

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/artifexsoftware/ghostpdl-downloads
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Fixed
16c7521e7784c75cbdc5ab31f4fe407eb7d72ae9
Database specific
Show details 
{
    "extracted_events":  [
        {
            "range":  [
                {
                    "introduced":  "0"
                },
                {
                    "fixed":  "9.51"
                }
            ],
            "source":  "DESCRIPTION"
        }
    ]
}

Affected versions

9.*
9.21rc1
9.27
9.27rc1
ghostpdl-9.*
ghostpdl-9.51rc2
gs9.*
gs9.26rc1
gs9.27
Other
gs918
gs919
gs920
gs920rc1
gs921
gs922
gs922rc1
gs922rc2
gs923
gs923rc1
gs924
gs924rc2
gs925
gs925rc1
gs926
gs927
gs928rc1
gs928rc2
gs928rc3
gs928rc4
gs950
gs951rc3

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2020-16298.json"