CVE-2020-16297

MediumCVSS 5.5/10Last modified Jun 17, 2026

Description

A buffer overflow vulnerability in FloydSteinbergDitheringC() in contrib/gdevbjca.c of Artifex Software GhostScript 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.

Metrics

CVSS 3.1 5.5/10CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Weakness enumeration

CWE-787

Affected software

No affected versions have been published.

Timeline

Published
Aug 13, 2020
Last modified
Jun 17, 2026
NVD status
Analyzed

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CVE-2020-16297: Medium severity, CVSS 5.5 | Vulnix