CVE-2020-15900

Summary

CVECVE-2020-15900
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2020-07-28 16:15:00 UTC
Updated2023-11-07 03:17:00 UTC
DescriptionA 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 And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-787 | CWE-191

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Artifex Ghostscript 9.50 All All All
Application Artifex Ghostscript 9.52 All All All
Application Artifex Ghostscript 9.50 All All All
Application Artifex Ghostscript 9.52 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 20.04 All All All
Operating System Opensuse Leap 15.1 All All All
Operating System Opensuse Leap 15.2 All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
[security-announce] openSUSE-SU-2020:1142-1: important: Security update SUSE lists.opensuse.org
git.ghostscript.com Git - ghostpdl.git/log git.ghostscript.com
git.ghostscript.com Git - ghostpdl.git/log MISC git.ghostscript.com Mailing List, Vendor Advisory
USN-4445-1: Ghostscript vulnerability | Ubuntu security notices | Ubuntu UBUNTU usn.ubuntu.com
[security-announce] openSUSE-SU-2020:1146-1: important: Security update SUSE lists.opensuse.org
History for psi/zstring.c - ArtifexSoftware/ghostpdl · GitHub MISC github.com Patch, Third Party Advisory
Bug 702582, CVE 2020-15900 Memory Corruption in Ghostscript 9.52 · ArtifexSoftware/ghostpdl@5d49927 · GitHub MISC github.com Patch, Third Party Advisory
GPL Ghostscript: Multiple vulnerabilities (GLSA 202008-20) — Gentoo security GENTOO security.gentoo.org
git.ghostscript.com Git - ghostpdl.git/commitdiff MISC git.ghostscript.com Patch, Vendor Advisory
git.ghostscript.com Git - ghostpdl.git/commitdiff git.ghostscript.com
Security Advisories - Artifex CONFIRM artifex.com Vendor Advisory
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 378954 Ghostscript Memory Corruption Vulnerability
  • 500215 Alpine Linux Security Update for ghostscript
  • 690425 Free Berkeley Software Distribution (FreeBSD) Security Update for ghostscript (62642942-590f-11eb-a0dc-8c164582fbac)
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