GHSA-83fh-hgc9-f5wp

GHSA-83fh-hgc9-f5wp PUBLISHED CVSS 5.5 MEDIUM

Record from GitHub Advisory Database · Published May 24, 2022

A buffer overflow vulnerability in epsc_print_page() in devices/gdevepsc.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.

Risk scores

CVSS 3.1

5.5

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Timeline

May 24, 2022 CVE Published
Apr 9, 2026 Security Advisory
Apr 29, 2026 Distribution Patch

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References

https://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git;a=commit;h=89f58f1aa95b3482cadf6977da49457194ee5358 url
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202008-20 url
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-16294 advisory
https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=701794 url
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/08/msg00032.html url
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4469-1 url
https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4748 url

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