CVE-2020-16307 Information

Description

A null pointer dereference vulnerability in devices/vector/gdevtxtw.c and psi/zbfont.c of Artifex Software GhostScript v9.50 allows a remote attacker to cause a denial of service via a crafted postscript file. This is fixed in v9.51.

CVSS Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Reference

http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git;a=commitdiff;h=407c98a38c3a6ac1681144ed45cc2f4fc374c91f https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=701822 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

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction Required

NONE

Scope

REQUIRED

Confidentiality Impact

UNCHANGED

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

NONE

Base Score

HIGH

Base Severity

5.5