CVE-2020-16297

Severity CVSS v4.0:

Pending analysis

Type:

CWE-787 Out-of-bounds Write

Publication date:

13/08/2020

Last modified:

14/03/2025

Description

A buffer overflow vulnerability in FloydSteinbergDitheringC() in contrib/gdevbjca.c of Artifex Software GhostScript v9.18 to v9.50 allows a remote attacker to cause a denial of service via a crafted PDF file. This is fixed in v9.51.

Impact

Vector 3.x

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS v3.1 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 5.50 MEDIUM
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Attack Vector (AV): Local
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Privileges Required (PR): None
User Interaction (UI): Required
Scope (S): Unchanged
Confidentiality (C): None
Integrity (I): None
Availability (A): High

Base Score 3.x

5.50

Severity 3.x

MEDIUM

Vector 2.0

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 4.30 MEDIUM
Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Medium
Authentication (Au): None
Confidentiality (C): None
Integrity (I): None
Availability (A): Physical

Base Score 2.0

4.30

Severity 2.0

MEDIUM

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE	From	Up to
cpe:2.3:a:artifex:ghostscript::::::::	9.18 (including)	9.52 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:9.0:::::::*
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:10.0:::::::*
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04::::esm:::
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.04::::lts:::
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:20.04::::lts:::

To consult the complete list of CPE names with products and versions, see this page

CPE	From	Up to
cpe:2.3:a:artifex:ghostscript::::::::	9.18 (including)	9.52 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:9.0:::::::*
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:10.0:::::::*
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04::::esm:::
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.04::::lts:::
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:20.04::::lts:::

CVE-2020-16297

Description

Impact

Vulnerable products and versions

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools