CVE-2020-15900

A memory corruption issue was found in Artifex Ghostscript 9.50 and 9.52. Use of a non-standard PostScript operator can allow overriding of file access controls. The 'rsearch' calculation for the 'post' size resulted in a size that was too large, and could underflow to max uint32_t. This was fixed in commit 5d499272b95a6b890a1397e11d20937de000d31b.
Wrap or Wraparound
ProviderTypeBase ScoreAtk. VectorAtk. ComplexityPriv. RequiredVector
NISTPrimary
9.8 CRITICAL
NETWORK
LOW
NONE
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Base Score
CVSS 3.x
EPSS Score
Percentile: 95%
Affected Products (NVD)
VendorProductVersion
artifexghostscript
9.50
artifexghostscript
9.52
canonicalubuntu_linux
20.04
opensuseleap
15.1
opensuseleap
15.2
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= Vulnerable software versions
Debian logo
Debian Releases
Debian Product
Codename
ghostscript
bookworm
10.0.0~dfsg-11+deb12u4
fixed
bookworm (security)
10.0.0~dfsg-11+deb12u5
fixed
bullseye
9.53.3~dfsg-7+deb11u7
fixed
bullseye (security)
9.53.3~dfsg-7+deb11u8
fixed
buster
not-affected
sid
10.04.0~dfsg-1
fixed
stretch
not-affected
trixie
10.04.0~dfsg-1
fixed
Ubuntu logo
Ubuntu Releases
Ubuntu Product
Codename
ghostscript
bionic
not-affected
focal
Fixed 9.50~dfsg-5ubuntu4.1
released
trusty
dne
xenial
not-affected
openSUSE logo
openSUSE / SLES Releases
openSUSE Product
Release
ghostscript
suse enterprise desktop 15 SP1
9.52-3.32.1
fixed
suse enterprise desktop 15 SP2
9.52-3.32.1
fixed
suse enterprise desktop 15 SP3
9.52-3.32.1
fixed
suse enterprise desktop 15 SP4
9.52-3.32.1
fixed
suse enterprise desktop 15 SP5
9.52-3.32.1
fixed
suse enterprise desktop 15 SP6
9.52-3.32.1
fixed
suse enterprise desktop 15 SP7
9.52-3.32.1
fixed
suse enterprise sap 12 SP2
9.52-23.39.1
fixed
suse enterprise sap 12 SP3
9.52-23.39.1
fixed
suse enterprise sap 12 SP4
9.52-23.39.1
fixed
suse enterprise sap 12 SP5
9.52-23.39.1
fixed
suse enterprise sap 15 SP1
9.52-3.32.1
fixed
suse enterprise sap 15 SP2
9.52-3.32.1
fixed
suse enterprise sap 15 SP3
9.52-3.32.1
fixed
suse enterprise sap 15 SP4
9.52-3.32.1
fixed
suse enterprise sap 15 SP5
9.52-3.32.1
fixed
suse enterprise sap 15 SP6
9.52-3.32.1
fixed
suse enterprise sap 15 SP7
9.52-3.32.1
fixed
suse enterprise server 12 SP2
9.52-23.39.1
fixed
suse enterprise server 12 SP3
9.52-23.39.1
fixed
suse enterprise server 12 SP4
9.52-23.39.1
fixed
suse enterprise server 12 SP5
9.52-23.39.1
fixed
suse enterprise server 15
9.52-3.32.1
fixed
suse enterprise server 15 SP1
9.52-3.32.1
fixed
suse enterprise server 15 SP2
9.52-3.32.1
fixed
suse enterprise server 15 SP3
9.52-3.32.1
fixed
suse enterprise server 15 SP4
9.52-3.32.1
fixed
suse enterprise server 15 SP5
9.52-3.32.1
fixed
suse enterprise server 15 SP6
9.52-3.32.1
fixed
suse enterprise server 15 SP7
9.52-3.32.1
fixed
ghostscript-devel
suse enterprise desktop 15 SP1
9.52-3.32.1
fixed
suse enterprise desktop 15 SP2
9.52-3.32.1
fixed
suse enterprise desktop 15 SP3
9.52-3.32.1
fixed
suse enterprise desktop 15 SP4
9.52-3.32.1
fixed
suse enterprise desktop 15 SP5
9.52-3.32.1
fixed
suse enterprise desktop 15 SP6
9.52-3.32.1
fixed
suse enterprise desktop 15 SP7
9.52-3.32.1
fixed
suse enterprise sap 15 SP1
9.52-3.32.1
fixed
suse enterprise sap 15 SP2
9.52-3.32.1
fixed
suse enterprise sap 15 SP3
9.52-3.32.1
fixed
suse enterprise sap 15 SP4
9.52-3.32.1
fixed
suse enterprise sap 15 SP5
9.52-3.32.1
fixed
suse enterprise sap 15 SP6
9.52-3.32.1
fixed
suse enterprise sap 15 SP7
9.52-3.32.1
fixed
suse enterprise server 15
9.52-3.32.1
fixed
suse enterprise server 15 SP1
9.52-3.32.1
fixed
suse enterprise server 15 SP2
9.52-3.32.1
fixed
suse enterprise server 15 SP3
9.52-3.32.1
fixed
suse enterprise server 15 SP4
9.52-3.32.1
fixed
suse enterprise server 15 SP5
9.52-3.32.1
fixed
suse enterprise server 15 SP6
9.52-3.32.1
fixed
suse enterprise server 15 SP7
9.52-3.32.1
fixed
ghostscript-x11
suse enterprise desktop 15 SP1
9.52-3.32.1
fixed
suse enterprise desktop 15 SP2
9.52-3.32.1
fixed
suse enterprise desktop 15 SP3
9.52-3.32.1
fixed
suse enterprise desktop 15 SP4
9.52-3.32.1
fixed
suse enterprise desktop 15 SP5
9.52-3.32.1
fixed
suse enterprise desktop 15 SP6
9.52-3.32.1
fixed
suse enterprise desktop 15 SP7
9.52-3.32.1
fixed
suse enterprise sap 12 SP2
9.52-23.39.1
fixed
suse enterprise sap 12 SP3
9.52-23.39.1
fixed
suse enterprise sap 12 SP4
9.52-23.39.1
fixed
suse enterprise sap 12 SP5
9.52-23.39.1
fixed
suse enterprise sap 15 SP1
9.52-3.32.1
fixed
suse enterprise sap 15 SP2
9.52-3.32.1
fixed
suse enterprise sap 15 SP3
9.52-3.32.1
fixed
suse enterprise sap 15 SP4
9.52-3.32.1
fixed
suse enterprise sap 15 SP5
9.52-3.32.1
fixed
suse enterprise sap 15 SP6
9.52-3.32.1
fixed
suse enterprise sap 15 SP7
9.52-3.32.1
fixed
suse enterprise server 12 SP2
9.52-23.39.1
fixed
suse enterprise server 12 SP3
9.52-23.39.1
fixed
suse enterprise server 12 SP4
9.52-23.39.1
fixed
suse enterprise server 12 SP5
9.52-23.39.1
fixed
suse enterprise server 15
9.52-3.32.1
fixed
suse enterprise server 15 SP1
9.52-3.32.1
fixed
suse enterprise server 15 SP2
9.52-3.32.1
fixed
suse enterprise server 15 SP3
9.52-3.32.1
fixed
suse enterprise server 15 SP4
9.52-3.32.1
fixed
suse enterprise server 15 SP5
9.52-3.32.1
fixed
suse enterprise server 15 SP6
9.52-3.32.1
fixed
suse enterprise server 15 SP7
9.52-3.32.1
fixed