github - ghsa-mwx2-8cmg-6vmj

ghsa-mwx2-8cmg-6vmj

Vulnerability from github

Published

2024-02-04 18:30

Modified

2024-03-05 00:31

Severity ?

9.8 (Critical) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Details

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).

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  "affected": [],
  "aliases": [
    "CVE-2020-36773"
  ],
  "database_specific": {
    "cwe_ids": [
      "CWE-416"
    ],
    "github_reviewed": false,
    "github_reviewed_at": null,
    "nvd_published_at": "2024-02-04T18:16:00Z",
    "severity": "CRITICAL"
  },
  "details": "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).",
  "id": "GHSA-mwx2-8cmg-6vmj",
  "modified": "2024-03-05T00:31:14Z",
  "published": "2024-02-04T18:30:19Z",
  "references": [
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      "type": "ADVISORY",
      "url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-36773"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=702229"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1177922"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=8c7bd787defa071c96289b7da9397f673fddb874"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git;a=commit;h=8c7bd787defa071c96289b7da9397f673fddb874"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://github.com/ArtifexSoftware/ghostpdl-downloads/releases/tag/gs9530"
    }
  ],
  "schema_version": "1.4.0",
  "severity": [
    {
      "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H",
      "type": "CVSS_V3"
    }
  ]
}

CVE-2020-36773 (GCVE-0-2020-36773)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5

Published

2024-02-04 00:00

Modified

2025-05-22 17:29

Severity ?

9.8 (Critical) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CWE

n/a

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

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	https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=702229
	https://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=8c7bd787defa071c96289b7da9397f673fddb874
	https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1177922
	https://github.com/ArtifexSoftware/ghostpdl-downloads/releases/tag/gs9530

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version
	n/a	n/a	Version: n/a

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