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CVE-2021-45949
- Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.1)
- Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
- EPSS: 1.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
- Public exploit or detection template: yes
- Published: 2022-01-01 · updated 2026-10-08
- Weakness: CWE-787
Description
Ghostscript GhostPDL 9.50 through 9.54.0 has a heap-based buffer overflow in sampled_data_finish (called from sampled_data_continue and interp).
Affected products
- Artifex Ghostscript: from 9.50 through 9.54.0
- Debian Linux: 9.0, 10.0, 11.0
References
- https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=34675
- https://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=2a3129365d3bc0d4a41f107ef175920d1505d1f7
- https://github.com/google/oss-fuzz-vulns/blob/main/vulns/ghostscript/OSV-2021-803.yaml
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/01/msg00006.html
- https://www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5038
- https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=34675
- https://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=2a3129365d3bc0d4a41f107ef175920d1505d1f7
- https://github.com/google/oss-fuzz-vulns/blob/main/vulns/ghostscript/OSV-2021-803.yaml
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/01/msg00006.html
- https://www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5038
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