VulnerabilityAnalyzed

CVE-2020-16297

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

MEDIUM 5.5EPSS 2.26%

Does this matter?

Lower severity and a low EPSS score (2.26%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.

Description

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: 2.26% probability · 82th percentile
CISA KEV: Not listed
Weakness: CWE-787
Affected: artifex/ghostscript · debian/debian linux · canonical/ubuntu linux
Source: cve@mitre.org

References

https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=701800Exploit, Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory
https://cgit.ghostscript.com/cgi-bin/cgit.cgi/ghostpdl.git/commit/?id=bf72f1a3dd5392ee8291e3b1518a0c2c5dc6ba39Patch
https://cgit.ghostscript.com/cgi-bin/cgit.cgi/ghostpdl.git/tree/contrib/gdevbjca.c?h=ghostpdl-9.18#n659Product
https://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git;a=commitdiff;h=bf72f1a3dd5392ee8291e3b1518a0c2c5dc6ba39Broken Link
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
https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=701800Exploit, Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory
https://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=bf72f1a3dd5392ee8291e3b1518a0c2c5dc6ba39Broken Link
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. Refreshed daily.