FKIE_CVE-2020-17538
Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2020-08-13 03:15 - Updated: 2026-06-17 02:59
Severity
Summary
A buffer overflow vulnerability in GetNumSameData() in contrib/lips4/gdevlips.c of Artifex Software GhostScript from 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
Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | |
|---|---|---|---|
| artifex | ghostscript | * | |
| debian | debian_linux | 9.0 | |
| debian | debian_linux | 10.0 | |
| canonical | ubuntu_linux | 16.04 | |
| canonical | ubuntu_linux | 18.04 | |
| canonical | ubuntu_linux | 20.04 |
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