CVE-2020-21890

Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2023-08-22 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-787

Description

Buffer Overflow vulnerability in clj_media_size function in devices/gdevclj.c in Artifex Ghostscript 9.50 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service or other unspecified impact(s) via opening of crafted PDF document.

Affected products

Artifex Ghostscript: 9.50

References

https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=701846
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/09/msg00029.html
https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=701846
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/09/msg00029.html

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