CVE-2020-16291
A buffer overflow vulnerability in contrib/gdevdj9.c of Artifex Software GhostScript v9.18 to v9.50 allows a remote attacker to cause a denial of service via a crafted PDF file.
Does this matter?
Lower severity and a low EPSS score (2.28%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.
Description
A buffer overflow vulnerability in contrib/gdevdj9.c of Artifex Software GhostScript 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.
- CVSS 3.1
- 5.5 MEDIUMCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- EPSS
- 2.28% probability · 83th percentile
- Public exploits
- None in Exploit-DB
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-787
- Affected
- artifex/ghostscript · debian/debian linux · canonical/ubuntu linux
- Source
- cve@mitre.org
EPSS 2.3% since 26 October 2026; no change recorded yet. Points are recorded when the score first appears and whenever it moves by a percentage point or more.
References
- http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git;h=4f73e8b4d578e69a17f452fa60d2130c5faaefd6Broken Link
- https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=701787Exploit, Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory
- https://cgit.ghostscript.com/cgi-bin/cgit.cgi/ghostpdl.git/commit/?id=4f73e8b4d578e69a17f452fa60d2130c5faaefd6Patch
- https://cgit.ghostscript.com/cgi-bin/cgit.cgi/ghostpdl.git/tree/contrib/gdevdj9.c?h=ghostpdl-9.18#n824Product
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/08/msg00032.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202008-20Third Party Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4469-1/Third Party Advisory
- https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4748Third Party Advisory
- http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Bh=4f73e8b4d578e69a17f452fa60d2130c5faaefd6Broken Link
- https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=701787Exploit, Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/08/msg00032.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202008-20Third Party Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4469-1/Third Party Advisory
- https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4748Third Party Advisory
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.