CVE-2020-16299

medium

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

https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=701801

https://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git;a=commit;h=19cebe708b9ee3d9e0f8bcdd79dbc6ef9ddc70d2

https://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git;a=commit;h=4fcbece46870

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

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

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

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

Details

Source: MITRE

Published: 2020-08-13

Updated: 2020-08-31

Type: CWE-369

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4.3

Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Impact Score: 2.9

Exploitability Score: 8.6

Severity: MEDIUM

CVSS v3

Base Score: 5.5

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

Impact Score: 3.6

Exploitability Score: 1.8

Severity: MEDIUM