| Name | CVE-2020-17538 |
| Description | A buffer overflow vulnerability in GetNumSameData() in contrib/lips4/gdevlips.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. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
| References | DLA-2335-1, DSA-4748-1, ELA-262-1 |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| ghostscript (PTS) | jessie, jessie (lts) | 9.26a~dfsg-0+deb8u12 | fixed |
| stretch (security) | 9.26a~dfsg-0+deb9u9 | fixed |
| stretch (lts), stretch | 9.26a~dfsg-0+deb9u12 | fixed |
| buster (security), buster, buster (lts) | 9.27~dfsg-2+deb10u9 | fixed |
| bullseye | 9.53.3~dfsg-7+deb11u7 | fixed |
| bullseye (security) | 9.53.3~dfsg-7+deb11u8 | fixed |
| bookworm | 10.0.0~dfsg-11+deb12u5 | fixed |
| bookworm (security) | 10.0.0~dfsg-11+deb12u6 | fixed |
| sid, trixie | 10.04.0~dfsg-1 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
Notes
https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=701792
https://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git;a=commit;h=9f39ed4a92578a020ae10459643e1fe72573d134 (9.51)
chunk #1, see also CVE-2020-16296