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Status published
Medium
CVE-2020-17538
A buffer overflow vulnerability in GetNumSameData() in contrib/lips4/gdevlips.c of Artifex...
Vulnerability Description
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.
Impact Analysis
Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.
Remediation
Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.
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Credits & Attribution
No credits recorded in the NVD database.
References
- https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=701792
- https://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git;a=commit;h=9f39ed4a92578a020ae10459643e1fe72573d134
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/08/msg00032.html
- https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4748
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202008-20
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4469-1/
- https://cgit.ghostscript.com/cgi-bin/cgit.cgi/ghostpdl.git/tree/contrib/lips4/gdevlips.c?h=ghostscript-9.18#n148
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Affected Vendor
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View all reports →Affected Software
ghostscript, debian linux, ubuntu linux
Vulnerable Versions:
9.18, 9.0, 10.0, 16.04, 18.04, 20.04
Timeline
Official Publish:
August 13th, 2020
Last Modified:
March 24th, 2025
Added to House:
July 21st, 2026
CVSS Vectors
V3:
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Weaknesses (CWE)
No CWE data available
MITRE ATT&CK TTPs
No associated TTPs found for this vulnerability.