CVE-2020-16298

NameCVE-2020-16298
DescriptionA 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.
SourceCVE (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)
ReferencesDLA-2335-1, DSA-4748-1

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source PackageReleaseVersionStatus
ghostscript (PTS)buster, buster (security)9.27~dfsg-2+deb10u5fixed
bullseye (security), bullseye9.53.3~dfsg-7+deb11u2fixed
bookworm, sid9.56.1~dfsg-1fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

PackageTypeReleaseFixed VersionUrgencyOriginDebian Bugs
ghostscriptsourcestretch9.26a~dfsg-0+deb9u7DLA-2335-1
ghostscriptsourcebuster9.27~dfsg-2+deb10u4DSA-4748-1
ghostscriptsource(unstable)9.51~dfsg-1

Notes

https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=701799
https://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git;a=commit;h=849e74e5ab450dd581942192da7101e0664fa5af (9.51)
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