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CVE-2020-16302

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2020-08-13 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-120

Description

A buffer overflow vulnerability in jetp3852_print_page() in devices/gdev3852.c of Artifex Software GhostScript v9.50 allows a remote attacker to escalate privileges via a crafted PDF file. This is fixed in v9.51.

Affected products

• Artifex Ghostscript: 9.50
• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 16.04, 18.04, 20.04
• Debian Linux: 9.0, 10.0

References

• https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=701815
• https://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=366ad48d076c1aa4c8f83c65011258a04e348207
• 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
• https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=701815
• https://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=366ad48d076c1aa4c8f83c65011258a04e348207
• 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

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