CVE-2020-16304

Description

A buffer overflow vulnerability in image_render_color_thresh() in base/gxicolor.c of Artifex Software GhostScript v9.18 to v9.50 allows a remote attacker to escalate privileges via a crafted eps 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://cgit.ghostscript.com/cgi-bin/cgit.cgi/ghostpdl.git/tree/base/gxicolor.c?h=ghostscript-9.18#n825

https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=701816

http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git;a=commitdiff;h=027c546e0dd11e0526f1780a7f3c2c66acffe209

http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=027c546e0dd11e0526f1780a7f3c2c66acffe209

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3