CVE-2020-36773
CVE-2020-36773
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Artifex Ghostscript before 9.53.0 has an out-of-bounds write and use-after-free in devices/vector/gdevtxtw.c (for txtwrite) because a single character code in a PDF document can map to more than one Unicode code point (e.g., for a ligature).
CVSS 9.8 · Critical · EPSS 0.9% · 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: < 9.53.0~dfsg-1
Update to 9.53.0~dfsg-1
ghostscript Debian:13
- Affected ranges
- ECOSYSTEM: < 9.53.0~dfsg-1
Update to 9.53.0~dfsg-1
ghostscript Debian:14
- Affected ranges
- ECOSYSTEM: < 9.53.0~dfsg-1
Update to 9.53.0~dfsg-1
Original sources
- https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=702229
- https://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=8c7bd787defa071c96289b7da9397f673fddb874
- https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1177922
- https://github.com/ArtifexSoftware/ghostpdl-downloads/releases/tag/gs9530
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-36773