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Vulnerabilities / CVE-2020-15900

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CVE-2020-15900

ghostscript: Memory Corruption in Ghostscript 9.52 (SAFER Sandbox Breakout)

Published Modified CWE 191, 787
In the Trivy database since at least 24 Oct 2026, 07:11 UTCWhen it arrived before that build is not recorded.

Severity by source

NVD9.8CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Red Hat7.3CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L

Trivy's own label is CRITICAL. Rated critical by NVD. Rated lower by Red Hat (high), Ubuntu (medium).

Description

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.

Affected packages and fixed versions

SourcePackageFixed in
alpine 3.11ghostscript9.50-r1
alpine 3.12ghostscript9.52-r1
debian 11ghostscript9.52.1~dfsg-1
debian 12ghostscript9.52.1~dfsg-1
debian 13ghostscript9.52.1~dfsg-1
debian 14ghostscript9.52.1~dfsg-1
echoghostscript9.52.1~dfsg-1
root.io debian 12rootio-ghostscript9.52.1~dfsg-1
ubuntu 20.04ghostscript9.50~dfsg-5ubuntu4.1
ubuntu 20.04-ESMghostscript9.50~dfsg-5ubuntu4.1

References

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