CVE-2020-16305 (GCVE-0-2020-16305)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2020-08-13 02:09 – Updated: 2024-08-04 13:37
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Summary
A buffer overflow vulnerability in pcx_write_rle() in contrib/japanese/gdev10v.c of Artifex Software GhostScript v9.50 allows a remote attacker to cause a denial of service via a crafted PDF file. This is fixed in v9.51.
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CWE
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https://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Ba=c… x_refsource_MISC
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020… mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4748 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIAN
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202008-20 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4469-1/ vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU
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