CVE-2020-36773

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-36773
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2020-36773.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2020-36773
Downstream
DEBIAN (1)
OESA (2)
SUSE (2)
UBUNTU (1)
Related
SUSE (2)
Published
2024-02-04T18:16:00Z
Modified
2026-10-20T10:54:21Z
Severity
  • 9.8 (Critical) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

Artifex Ghostscript before 9.53.0 has an out-of-bounds write and use-after-free in devices/vector/gdevtxtw.c (for txtwrite) because a single character code in a PDF document can map to more than one Unicode code point (e.g., for a ligature).

Database specific 
{
    "unresolved_ranges":  [
        {
            "cpes":  [
                "cpe:2.3:a:artifex:ghostscript:9.52.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
                "cpe:2.3:a:artifex:ghostscript:9.52:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
            ],
            "extracted_events":  [
                {
                    "range":  [
                        {
                            "introduced":  "9.52"
                        },
                        {
                            "last_affected":  "9.52"
                        },
                        {
                            "introduced":  "9.52.1"
                        },
                        {
                            "last_affected":  "9.52.1"
                        }
                    ],
                    "source":  "CPE_STRING"
                }
            ],
            "vendor_product":  "artifex:ghostscript"
        }
    ]
}
References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/artifexsoftware/ghostpdl-downloads

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/artifexsoftware/ghostpdl-downloads
Events
Introduced
16c7521e7784c75cbdc5ab31f4fe407eb7d72ae9
Last Affected
6faa77094ce388292a2797477bd4597e6b3b35ff
Fixed
088333d4adf1bfbd850527bfe644229a9122dc8a
Database specific
Show details 
{
    "extracted_events":  [
        {
            "cpe":  "cpe:2.3:a:artifex:ghostscript:9.51:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
            "range":  [
                {
                    "introduced":  "9.51"
                },
                {
                    "last_affected":  "9.51"
                }
            ],
            "source":  "CPE_STRING"
        },
        {
            "cpe":  "cpe:2.3:a:artifex:ghostscript:9.53.0:rc1:*:*:*:*:*:*",
            "range":  [
                {
                    "introduced":  "9.53.0-rc1"
                },
                {
                    "last_affected":  "9.53.0-rc1"
                }
            ],
            "source":  "CPE_STRING"
        },
        {
            "cpe":  "cpe:2.3:a:artifex:ghostscript:9.53.0:rc2:*:*:*:*:*:*",
            "range":  [
                {
                    "introduced":  "9.53.0-rc2"
                },
                {
                    "last_affected":  "9.53.0-rc2"
                }
            ],
            "source":  "CPE_STRING"
        },
        {
            "original_tag":  "gs9530",
            "range":  [
                {
                    "fixed":  "088333d4adf1bfbd850527bfe644229a9122dc8a"
                }
            ],
            "source":  "REFERENCES_TAG"
        }
    ]
}

Affected versions

9.*
9.51
9.53.0-rc1
ghostpdl-9.*
ghostpdl-9.51
ghostpdl-9.53.0rc1
ghostpdl-9.53.0rc2
Other
gs951
gs952

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2020-36773.json"