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CentOS Linux: CVE-2020-16305: Moderate: ghostscript security, bug fix, and enhancement update (CESA-2021:1852)

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CentOS Linux: CVE-2020-16305: Moderate: ghostscript security, bug fix, and enhancement update (CESA-2021:1852)

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
08/13/2020
Created
06/01/2021
Added
06/01/2021
Modified
05/25/2023

Description

A buffer overflow vulnerability in pcx_write_rle() 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.

Solution(s)

  • centos-upgrade-ghostscript
  • centos-upgrade-ghostscript-debuginfo
  • centos-upgrade-ghostscript-debugsource
  • centos-upgrade-ghostscript-gtk-debuginfo
  • centos-upgrade-ghostscript-x11
  • centos-upgrade-ghostscript-x11-debuginfo
  • centos-upgrade-libgs
  • centos-upgrade-libgs-debuginfo

References

  • DSA-4748
  • CVE-2020-16305

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