CVE-2020-16304

MEDIUM

Artifex GhostScript 9.18-9.50 - Out-of-bounds Write in image_render_color_thresh

Title source: llm

Description

A buffer overflow vulnerability in image_render_color_thresh() in base/gxicolor.c of Artifex Software GhostScript v9.18 to v9.50 allows a remote attacker to escalate privileges via a crafted eps file. This is fixed in v9.51.

References (8)

Core 8

Core References

Mailing List, Third Party Advisory mailing-list

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/08/msg00032.html

Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory

https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4748

Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202008-20

Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory

https://usn.ubuntu.com/4469-1/

Broken Link

http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git;a=commitdiff;h=027c546e0dd11e0526f1780a7f3c2c66acffe209

Exploit, Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory

https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=701816

Product

https://cgit.ghostscript.com/cgi-bin/cgit.cgi/ghostpdl.git/tree/base/gxicolor.c?h=ghostscript-9.18#n825

Broken Link

http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=027c546e0dd11e0526f1780a7f3c2c66acffe209

Scores

CVSS v3 5.5

EPSS 0.0047

EPSS Percentile 65.0%

Attack Vector LOCAL

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

Details

CWE

CWE-787

Status published

Products (6)

artifex/ghostscript 9.18 - 9.52

canonical/ubuntu_linux 16.04

canonical/ubuntu_linux 18.04

canonical/ubuntu_linux 20.04

debian/debian_linux 9.0

debian/debian_linux 10.0

Published Aug 13, 2020

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026