cve-2020-27792
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2022-08-19 22:46
Modified
2024-08-19 22:40
Severity
7.1 (High) - cvssV3_1 - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H
Summary
Ghostscript: heap buffer over write vulnerability in ghostscript's lp8000_print_page() in gdevlp8k.c
References
SourceURLTags
secalert@redhat.comhttps://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-27792
secalert@redhat.comhttps://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=701844Exploit, Issue Tracking, Patch, Vendor Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2247179
secalert@redhat.comhttps://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=4f6bc662909ab79e8fbe9822afb36e8a0eafc2b7
secalert@redhat.comhttps://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git;a=commitdiff;h=4f6bc662909ab79e8fbe9822afb36e8a0eafc2b7
secalert@redhat.comhttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/09/msg00005.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
Impacted products
VendorProduct
Red HatRed Hat Enterprise Linux 6
Red HatRed Hat Enterprise Linux 7
Red HatRed Hat Enterprise Linux 8
Red HatRed Hat Enterprise Linux 9
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