ghsa-x476-7xh5-hq84
Vulnerability from github
Published
2022-05-24 17:25
Modified
2025-03-04 21:30
Severity ?
5.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Details

A buffer overflow vulnerability in FloydSteinbergDitheringC() in contrib/gdevbjca.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.

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  "affected": [],
  "aliases": [
    "CVE-2020-16297"
  ],
  "database_specific": {
    "cwe_ids": [
      "CWE-787"
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    "github_reviewed": false,
    "github_reviewed_at": null,
    "nvd_published_at": "2020-08-13T03:15:00Z",
    "severity": "MODERATE"
  },
  "details": "A buffer overflow vulnerability in FloydSteinbergDitheringC() in contrib/gdevbjca.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.",
  "id": "GHSA-x476-7xh5-hq84",
  "modified": "2025-03-04T21:30:52Z",
  "published": "2022-05-24T17:25:32Z",
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      "type": "ADVISORY",
      "url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-16297"
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      "type": "WEB",
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    },
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      "url": "https://cgit.ghostscript.com/cgi-bin/cgit.cgi/ghostpdl.git/commit/?id=bf72f1a3dd5392ee8291e3b1518a0c2c5dc6ba39"
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    },
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    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/08/msg00032.html"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202008-20"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://usn.ubuntu.com/4469-1"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4748"
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}


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