CVE-2020-16297

Description

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. This is fixed in v9.51.

References

https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4748

https://usn.ubuntu.com/4469-1/

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202008-20

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/08/msg00032.html

https://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=bf72f1a3dd5392ee8291e3b1518a0c2c5dc6ba39

https://cgit.ghostscript.com/cgi-bin/cgit.cgi/ghostpdl.git/tree/contrib/gdevbjca.c?h=ghostpdl-9.18#n659

https://cgit.ghostscript.com/cgi-bin/cgit.cgi/ghostpdl.git/commit/?id=bf72f1a3dd5392ee8291e3b1518a0c2c5dc6ba39

https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=701800

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3