cve-2020-36773
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2024-02-04 00:00
Modified
2024-08-04 17:37
Severity ?
Summary
Artifex Ghostscript before 9.53.0 has an out-of-bounds write and use-after-free in devices/vector/gdevtxtw.c (for txtwrite) because a single character code in a PDF document can map to more than one Unicode code point (e.g., for a ligature).
References
cve@mitre.orghttps://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=702229Issue Tracking, Patch
cve@mitre.orghttps://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1177922Issue Tracking
cve@mitre.orghttps://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=8c7bd787defa071c96289b7da9397f673fddb874Broken Link
cve@mitre.orghttps://github.com/ArtifexSoftware/ghostpdl-downloads/releases/tag/gs9530Release Notes
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=702229Issue Tracking, Patch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1177922Issue Tracking
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=8c7bd787defa071c96289b7da9397f673fddb874Broken Link
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://github.com/ArtifexSoftware/ghostpdl-downloads/releases/tag/gs9530Release Notes
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