CVE-2020-17538
CVE-2020-17538
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A buffer overflow vulnerability in GetNumSameData() in contrib/lips4/gdevlips.c of Artifex Software GhostScript from 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 5.5 · Medium · EPSS 1.9% · Fix available
- Published
- Updated
Stack: system
Affected products and versions
n/a
- Versions
- n/a: Affected
No fix published
ghostscript Debian:12
- Affected ranges
- ECOSYSTEM: < 9.51~dfsg-1
Update to 9.51~dfsg-1
ghostscript Debian:13
- Affected ranges
- ECOSYSTEM: < 9.51~dfsg-1
Update to 9.51~dfsg-1
ghostscript Debian:14
- Affected ranges
- ECOSYSTEM: < 9.51~dfsg-1
Update to 9.51~dfsg-1
ghostscript Ubuntu:16.04:LTS
- Versions
- 9.16~dfsg~0-0ubuntu3
- 9.16~dfsg~0-0ubuntu4
- 9.18~dfsg~0-0ubuntu1
- 9.18~dfsg~0-0ubuntu2
- 9.18~dfsg~0-0ubuntu2.2
- 9.18~dfsg~0-0ubuntu2.3
- 9.18~dfsg~0-0ubuntu2.4
- 9.18~dfsg~0-0ubuntu2.6
- 9.18~dfsg~0-0ubuntu2.7
- 9.18~dfsg~0-0ubuntu2.8
- 9.18~dfsg~0-0ubuntu2.9
- 9.25~dfsg+1-0ubuntu0.16.04.1
- 9.25~dfsg+1-0ubuntu0.16.04.2
- 9.25~dfsg+1-0ubuntu0.16.04.3
- 9.26~dfsg+0-0ubuntu0.16.04.1
- 9.26~dfsg+0-0ubuntu0.16.04.3
- 9.26~dfsg+0-0ubuntu0.16.04.4
- 9.26~dfsg+0-0ubuntu0.16.04.5
- 9.26~dfsg+0-0ubuntu0.16.04.6
- 9.26~dfsg+0-0ubuntu0.16.04.7
- 9.26~dfsg+0-0ubuntu0.16.04.8
- 9.26~dfsg+0-0ubuntu0.16.04.9
- 9.26~dfsg+0-0ubuntu0.16.04.10
- 9.26~dfsg+0-0ubuntu0.16.04.11
- 9.26~dfsg+0-0ubuntu0.16.04.12
- Affected ranges
- ECOSYSTEM: < 9.26~dfsg+0-0ubuntu0.16.04.13
Update to 9.26~dfsg+0-0ubuntu0.16.04.13
ghostscript Ubuntu:18.04:LTS
- Versions
- 9.21~dfsg+1-0ubuntu3
- 9.22~dfsg+1-0ubuntu1
- 9.22~dfsg+1-0ubuntu1.1
- 9.22~dfsg+1-0ubuntu1.2
- 9.25~dfsg+1-0ubuntu0.18.04.1
- 9.25~dfsg+1-0ubuntu0.18.04.2
- 9.26~dfsg+0-0ubuntu0.18.04.1
- 9.26~dfsg+0-0ubuntu0.18.04.3
- 9.26~dfsg+0-0ubuntu0.18.04.4
- 9.26~dfsg+0-0ubuntu0.18.04.5
- 9.26~dfsg+0-0ubuntu0.18.04.6
- 9.26~dfsg+0-0ubuntu0.18.04.7
- 9.26~dfsg+0-0ubuntu0.18.04.8
- 9.26~dfsg+0-0ubuntu0.18.04.9
- 9.26~dfsg+0-0ubuntu0.18.04.10
- 9.26~dfsg+0-0ubuntu0.18.04.11
- 9.26~dfsg+0-0ubuntu0.18.04.12
- Affected ranges
- ECOSYSTEM: < 9.26~dfsg+0-0ubuntu0.18.04.13
Update to 9.26~dfsg+0-0ubuntu0.18.04.13
ghostscript Ubuntu:20.04:LTS
- Versions
- 9.27~dfsg+0-0ubuntu3
- 9.27~dfsg+0-0ubuntu4
- 9.50~dfsg-5ubuntu1
- 9.50~dfsg-5ubuntu2
- 9.50~dfsg-5ubuntu3
- 9.50~dfsg-5ubuntu4
- 9.50~dfsg-5ubuntu4.1
- Affected ranges
- ECOSYSTEM: < 9.50~dfsg-5ubuntu4.2
Update to 9.50~dfsg-5ubuntu4.2
Original sources
- https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=701792
- https://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git;a=commit;h=9f39ed4a92578a020ae10459643e1fe72573d134
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/08/msg00032.html
- https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4748
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202008-20
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4469-1/
- https://cgit.ghostscript.com/cgi-bin/cgit.cgi/ghostpdl.git/tree/contrib/lips4/gdevlips.c?h=ghostscript-9.18#n148
- https://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=9f39ed4a92578a020ae10459643e1fe72573d134
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-17538