Published: 13/08/2020 Updated: 07/11/2023

CVSS v2 Base Score: 6.8 | Impact Score: 6.4 | Exploitability Score: 8.6

CVSS v3 Base Score: 7.8 | Impact Score: 5.9 | Exploitability Score: 1.8

VMScore: 605

Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

A use-after-free vulnerability in xps_finish_image_path() in devices/vector/gdevxps.c of Artifex Software GhostScript v9.50 allows a remote malicious user to escalate privileges via a crafted PDF file. This is fixed in v9.51.

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Multiple security issues were discovered in Ghostscript, the GPL PostScript/PDF interpreter which could result in denial of service and potentially the execution of arbitrary code if malformed document files are processed For the stable distribution (buster), these problems have been fixed in version 927~dfsg-2+deb10u4 We recommend that you upgr ...

CWE-416 https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=701818 https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/08/msg00032.html https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4748 https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202008-20 https://usn.ubuntu.com/4469-1/https://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=94d8955cb77 https://nvd.nist.gov https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4748

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