Veracode Vulnerability DatabaseVERACODE:31016Denial Of Service
9.8 High
CVSS3
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
7.5 High
CVSS2
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
0.005 Low
EPSS
Percentile
76.4%
ghostscript is vulnerable to denial of service. The vulnerability exists due to a memory corruption. An attacker is able to override file access controls by using non-standard PostScript that resulted in a size that was too large, and could underflow to max uint32_t.
| CPE | Name | Operator | Version |
|---|---|---|---|
| ghostscript:3.12 | eq | 9.52-r0 | |
| ghostscript:3.11 | eq | 9.50-r0 | |
| ghostscript:3.12 | eq | 9.52-r0 | |
| ghostscript:3.11 | eq | 9.50-r0 |
References
git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git;a=log
lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-08/msg00004.html
lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-08/msg00006.html
artifex.com/security-advisories/CVE-2020-15900
git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git;a=commitdiff;h=5d499272b95a6b890a1397e11d20937de000d31b
github.com/ArtifexSoftware/ghostpdl/commit/5d499272b95a6b890a1397e11d20937de000d31b
github.com/ArtifexSoftware/ghostpdl/commits/master/psi/zstring.c
secdb.alpinelinux.org/v3.12/main.yaml
security.gentoo.org/glsa/202008-20
usn.ubuntu.com/4445-1/
Related
9.8 High
CVSS3
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
7.5 High
CVSS2
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
0.005 Low
EPSS
Percentile
76.4%