CVE-2020-16299

MEDIUM

Artifex Ghostscript < 9.52 - Divide By Zero

Title source: rule

Description

A Division by Zero vulnerability in bj10v_print_page() in contrib/japanese/gdev10v.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.

References (7)

[Patch] https://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=19cebe708b9ee3d9e0f8bcdd79dbc6ef9ddc70d2

[Patch] https://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=4fcbece46870

[Exploit, Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory] https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=701801

[Mailing List, Third Party Advisory] https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/08/msg00032.html

[Third Party Advisory] https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202008-20

[Third Party Advisory] https://usn.ubuntu.com/4469-1/

[Third Party Advisory] https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4748

Scores

CVSS v3 5.5

EPSS 0.0083

EPSS Percentile 74.2%

Attack Vector LOCAL

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

Classification

CWE

CWE-369

Status published

Affected Products (6)

artifex/ghostscript < 9.52

debian/debian_linux

canonical/ubuntu_linux

Timeline

Published Aug 13, 2020

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026