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ALPINE-CVE-2020-15900

ALPINE-CVE-2020-15900 PUBLISHED CVSS 9.800000190734863 CRITICAL

A memory corruption issue was found in Artifex Ghostscript 9.50 and 9.52. Use of a non-standard PostScript operator can allow overriding of file access controls. The 'rsearch' calculation for the 'post' size resulted in a size that was too large, and could underflow to max uint32_t. This was fixed in commit 5d499272b95a6b890a1397e11d20937de000d31b.

Risk Scores

CVSS v3.1
9.800000190734863
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected Products

VendorProductVersions
Alpine:v3.11ghostscript0, 8.64-r0, 8.70-r0
Alpine:v3.12ghostscript9.15-r1, 9.16-r0, 9.16-r1

Timeline

  • Jul 28, 2020 CVE Published
  • Nov 19, 2025 CVE Updated
  • Apr 30, 2026 Distribution Patch
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