CVE-2020-16307

medium

Description

A null pointer dereference vulnerability in devices/vector/gdevtxtw.c and psi/zbfont.c of Artifex Software GhostScript v9.50 allows a remote attacker to cause a denial of service via a crafted postscript file. This is fixed in v9.51.

References

Advisories
More

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://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=701822

http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=407c98a38c3a6ac1681144ed45cc2f4fc374c91f

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2020-08-13

Updated: 2024-11-21

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4.3

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 5.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H