CVE-2021-45949

Summary

CVECVE-2021-45949
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2022-01-01 00:15:00 UTC
Updated2023-11-07 03:39:00 UTC
DescriptionGhostscript GhostPDL 9.50 through 9.54.0 has a heap-based buffer overflow in sampled_data_finish (called from sampled_data_continue and interp).

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-787

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Artifex Ghostscript All All All All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 10.0 All All All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 11.0 All All All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 9.0 All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
[SECURITY] [DLA 2879-1] ghostscript security update MLIST lists.debian.org
Debian -- Security Information -- DSA-5038-1 ghostscript DEBIAN www.debian.org
34675 - oss-fuzz - OSS-Fuzz: Fuzzing the planet - Monorail MISC bugs.chromium.org
oss-fuzz-vulns/OSV-2021-803.yaml at main · google/oss-fuzz-vulns · GitHub MISC github.com
git.ghostscript.com Git - ghostpdl.git/commit MISC git.ghostscript.com
git.ghostscript.com Git git.ghostscript.com
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 178989 Debian Security Update for ghostscript (DSA 5038-1)
  • 179002 Debian Security Update for ghostscript (DLA 2879-1)
  • 184837 Debian Security Update for ghostscript (CVE-2021-45949)
  • 198630 Ubuntu Security Notification for Ghostscript Vulnerabilities (USN-5224-1)
  • 671449 EulerOS Security Update for ghostscript (EulerOS-SA-2022-1426)
  • 671477 EulerOS Security Update for ghostscript (EulerOS-SA-2022-1447)
  • 671493 EulerOS Security Update for ghostscript (EulerOS-SA-2022-1484)
  • 671541 EulerOS Security Update for ghostscript (EulerOS-SA-2022-1503)
  • 671583 EulerOS Security Update for ghostscript (EulerOS-SA-2022-1533)
  • 671676 EulerOS Security Update for ghostscript (EulerOS-SA-2022-1723)
  • 751603 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for ghostscript (SUSE-SU-2022:0081-1)
  • 751605 OpenSUSE Security Update for ghostscript (openSUSE-SU-2022:0088-1)
  • 751706 OpenSUSE Security Update for ghostscript (openSUSE-SU-2022:0088-2)
  • 751991 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for ghostscript (SUSE-SU-2022:0088-1)
  • 753608 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for ghostscript (SUSE-SU-2022:0088-3)
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