CVE-2020-16304
- Source
- https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-16304
- Import Source
- https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2020-16304.json
- JSON Data
- https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2020-16304
- Downstream
- Related
- Published
- 2020-08-13T03:15:14.023Z
- Modified
- 2026-03-10T23:12:09.091187Z
- Severity
-
- 5.5 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
- Summary
- [none]
- Details
-
A buffer overflow vulnerability in imagerendercolor_thresh() in base/gxicolor.c of Artifex Software GhostScript v9.18 to v9.50 allows a remote attacker to escalate privileges via a crafted eps file. This is fixed in v9.51.
- References
-
- https://cgit.ghostscript.com/cgi-bin/cgit.cgi/ghostpdl.git/tree/base/gxicolor.c?h=ghostscript-9.18#n825
- http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=027c546e0dd11e0526f1780a7f3c2c66acffe209
- http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git;a=commitdiff;h=027c546e0dd11e0526f1780a7f3c2c66acffe209
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/08/msg00032.html
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202008-20
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4469-1/
- https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4748
- https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=701816
Affected packages
Git /
Database specific
source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2020-16304.json"
unresolved_ranges
[
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"events": [
{
"introduced": "9.18"
},
{
"last_affected": "9.52"
}
]
},
{
"events": [
{
"introduced": "0"
},
{
"last_affected": "9.0"
}
]
},
{
"events": [
{
"introduced": "0"
},
{
"last_affected": "10.0"
}
]
},
{
"events": [
{
"introduced": "0"
},
{
"last_affected": "16.04"
}
]
},
{
"events": [
{
"introduced": "0"
},
{
"last_affected": "18.04"
}
]
},
{
"events": [
{
"introduced": "0"
},
{
"last_affected": "20.04"
}
]
}
]