CVE-2020-21890

NameCVE-2020-21890
DescriptionBuffer Overflow vulnerability in clj_media_size function in devices/gdevclj.c in Artifex Ghostscript 9.50 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service or other unspecified impact(s) via opening of crafted PDF document.
SourceCVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)
ReferencesDLA-3582-1

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source PackageReleaseVersionStatus
ghostscript (PTS)bullseye9.53.3~dfsg-7+deb11u7fixed
bullseye (security)9.53.3~dfsg-7+deb11u9fixed
bookworm10.0.0~dfsg-11+deb12u5fixed
bookworm (security)10.0.0~dfsg-11+deb12u6fixed
trixie10.04.0~dfsg-1fixed
sid10.04.0~dfsg-2fixed

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

PackageTypeReleaseFixed VersionUrgencyOriginDebian Bugs
ghostscriptsourcebuster9.27~dfsg-2+deb10u9DLA-3582-1
ghostscriptsource(unstable)9.51~dfsg-1

Notes

https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=701846
Prerequisite for fixing commit: https://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git;a=commit;h=dbdb5f8527007b482d4e6037b558dbf3e6a06d3a (ghostpdl-9.51rc1)
Fixed by: https://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git;a=commitdiff;h=494eeedf73d13fac5710e56f3a8fb2e7e2379d73 (ghostpdl-9.51rc1)

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