critical9.8
CVE-2020-36773
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 …
Impact
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).
Affected products
| Vendor | Product | Affected versions |
|---|---|---|
| Artifex | Ghostscript | Versions 9.51, 9.52, 9.52.1, 9.53.0 |
Weakness classification
References
- NVD record
- CVE.org record
- https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=702229
- https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1177922
- 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://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=8c7bd787defa071c96289b7da9397f673fddb874
- https://github.com/ArtifexSoftware/ghostpdl-downloads/releases/tag/gs9530