fkie_cve-2020-36773
Vulnerability from fkie_nvd
Published
2024-02-04 18:16
Modified
2025-05-22 18:15
Severity ?
9.8 (Critical) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
9.8 (Critical) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
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
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
artifex ghostscript 9.51
artifex ghostscript 9.52
artifex ghostscript 9.52.1
artifex ghostscript 9.53.0
artifex ghostscript 9.53.0


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