| Name | CVE-2020-16298 |
| Description | A buffer overflow vulnerability in mj_color_correct() in contrib/japanese/gdevmjc.c of Artifex Software GhostScript v9.50 allows a remote attacker to cause a denial of service via a crafted PDF file. This is fixed in v9.51. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, bugtraq, EDB, Metasploit, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, Mageia, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
| References | DLA-2335-1, DSA-4748-1 |
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| ghostscript (PTS) | buster | 9.27~dfsg-2+deb10u5 | fixed |
| buster (security) | 9.27~dfsg-2+deb10u6 | fixed | |
| bullseye (security), bullseye | 9.53.3~dfsg-7+deb11u2 | fixed | |
| bookworm, sid | 10.0.0~dfsg-8 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
| Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ghostscript | source | stretch | 9.26a~dfsg-0+deb9u7 | DLA-2335-1 | ||
| ghostscript | source | buster | 9.27~dfsg-2+deb10u4 | DSA-4748-1 | ||
| ghostscript | source | (unstable) | 9.51~dfsg-1 |
https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=701799
https://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git;a=commit;h=849e74e5ab450dd581942192da7101e0664fa5af (9.51)