CVE-2020-16310 (GCVE-0-2020-16310)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2020-08-13 02:10 – Updated: 2024-08-04 13:37
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Summary
A division by zero vulnerability in dot24_print_page() in devices/gdevdm24.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.
Severity
5.5 (Medium)
CWE
- n/a
Assigner
References
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| https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=701828 | x_refsource_MISC |
| 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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"product_status:recommended": "8",
"source": "SUSE CSAF VEX",
"status": "interim",
"title": "SUSE CVE CVE-2020-16310",
"url": "https://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/security/csaf-vex/cve-2020-16310.json",
"version": "20"
}
}
}
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Experimental. This forecast is provided for visualization only and may change without notice. Do not use it for operational decisions.
Forecast uses a logistic model when the trend is rising, or an exponential decay model when the trend is falling. Fitted via linearized least squares.
Sightings
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Nomenclature
- Seen: The vulnerability was mentioned, discussed, or observed by the user.
- Confirmed: The vulnerability has been validated from an analyst's perspective.
- Published Proof of Concept: A public proof of concept is available for this vulnerability.
- Exploited: The vulnerability was observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
- Patched: The vulnerability was observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
- Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
- Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
- Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
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The MITRE ATT&CK techniques below are AI-generated suggestions, inferred from the description of the
vulnerability by the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-classification-roberta-base
model, served locally by ML-Gateway.
They have not been verified by an analyst and are provided for guidance only.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
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Related by attack behaviour
Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.
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