CVE-2020-17538

A buffer overflow vulnerability in GetNumSameData() in contrib/lips4/gdevlips.c of Artifex Software GhostScript from v9.18 to v9.50 allows a remote attacker to cause a denial of service via a crafted PDF file. This is fixed in v9.51.

CVSS v3.1

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

CVSS v2.0

4.3 MEDIUMAV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

EPSS

1.93% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, 79th percentile

Published

2020-08-13

Updated

2025-03-24

Proof-of-concept exploits (1)

• https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=701792

References

• CVE Record
• NVD entry

Related

• CVE-2020-17533
• CVE-2020-17541
• CVE-2020-17532
• CVE-2020-1764
• CVE-2020-17531
• CVE-2020-17752