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DEBIAN-CVE-2020-15900
DEBIAN-CVE-2020-15900
PUBLISHED
CVSS 9.800000190734863 CRITICAL
Record from OSV · Published July 28, 2020
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.
Fixed versions
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| Package | Ecosystem | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| ghostscript | Debian:13 | 9.52.1~dfsg-1 |
| ghostscript | Debian:12 | 9.52.1~dfsg-1 |
| ghostscript | Debian:14 | 9.52.1~dfsg-1 |
Risk scores
CVSS 3.1
9.800000190734863
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Affected products
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
| Debian:13 | ghostscript | 0 |
| Debian:12 | ghostscript | 0 |
| Debian:14 | ghostscript | 0 |
Timeline
- Jul 28, 2020 CVE Published
- Oct 26, 2026 CVE Updated
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