CVE-2020-36773
- 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
- Related
- Published
- 2024-02-04T18:16:00.713Z
- Modified
- 2026-03-02T08:00:10.123416Z
- Severity
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- 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
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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).
- References
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- https://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=8c7bd787defa071c96289b7da9397f673fddb874
- https://github.com/ArtifexSoftware/ghostpdl-downloads/releases/tag/gs9530
- https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=702229
- https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1177922
- https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=702229
Affected packages
Git / github.com/artifexsoftware/ghostpdl-downloads
Affected ranges
- Type
- GIT
- Repo
- https://github.com/artifexsoftware/ghostpdl-downloads
- Events
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Introduced0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affectedLast affected