OPENSUSE-SU-2020:1142-1
Vulnerability from csaf_opensuse - Published: 2020-08-03 18:18 - Updated: 2026-09-20 19:10Summary
Security update for ghostscript
Severity
Important
Notes
Title of the patch: Security update for ghostscript
Description of the patch: This update for ghostscript fixes the following issues:
- fixed CVE-2020-15900 Memory Corruption (SAFER Sandbox Breakout)
cf. https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=702582
(bsc#1174415)
This update was imported from the SUSE:SLE-15:Update update project.
Patchnames: openSUSE-2020-1142
Terms of use: CSAF 2.0 data is provided by SUSE under the Creative Commons License 4.0 with Attribution (CC-BY-4.0).
7.5 (High)
Affected products
Recommended
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| Unresolved product id: openSUSE Leap 15.1:ghostscript-devel-0:9.52-lp151.3.15.1.i586 | — |
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| Unresolved product id: openSUSE Leap 15.1:ghostscript-devel-0:9.52-lp151.3.15.1.x86_64 | — |
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Threats
Impact
important
References
8 references
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- Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
- Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
- Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
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The MITRE ATT&CK techniques below are AI-generated suggestions, inferred from the description of the
vulnerability by the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-classification-roberta-base
model, served locally by ML-Gateway.
They have not been verified by an analyst and are provided for guidance only.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
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Related by attack behaviour
Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.
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