vulnerability

Alpine Linux: CVE-2020-16288: Classic Buffer Overflow

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Aug 13, 2020
Added
Mar 26, 2024
Modified
Mar 25, 2026

Description

A buffer overflow vulnerability in pj_common_print_page() in devices/gdevpjet.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

alpine-linux-upgrade-ghostscript
Title
Rapid7 Labs

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