CVE-2020-16307

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-16307
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2020-16307.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2020-16307
Downstream
Related
Published
2020-08-13T03:15:14Z
Modified
2026-10-16T02:49:26Z
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 null pointer dereference vulnerability in devices/vector/gdevtxtw.c and psi/zbfont.c of Artifex Software GhostScript v9.50 allows a remote attacker to cause a denial of service via a crafted postscript file. This is fixed in v9.51.

Database specific 
{
    "unresolved_ranges": [
        {
            "cpes": [
                "cpe:2.3:a:artifex:ghostscript:9.50:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
            ],
            "extracted_events": [
                {
                    "range": [
                        {
                            "introduced": "9.50"
                        },
                        {
                            "last_affected": "9.50"
                        }
                    ],
                    "source": "CPE_STRING"
                }
            ],
            "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-2020-16307.json"