cve-2020-17538
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2020-08-13 02:10
Modified
2024-08-04 14:00
Severity ?
Summary
A buffer overflow vulnerability in GetNumSameData() in contrib/lips4/gdevlips.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.
References
cve@mitre.orghttps://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=701792Exploit, Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=9f39ed4a92578a020ae10459643e1fe72573d134
cve@mitre.orghttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/08/msg00032.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202008-20Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://usn.ubuntu.com/4469-1/Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4748Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=701792Exploit, Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=9f39ed4a92578a020ae10459643e1fe72573d134
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/08/msg00032.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202008-20Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://usn.ubuntu.com/4469-1/Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4748Third Party Advisory
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