CVE-2020-36773

Artifex Ghostscript before 9.53.0 has an out-of-bounds write and use-after-free in devices/vector/gdevtxtw.c (for txtwrite) because a single character code in a PDF document can map to more than one Unicode code point (e.g., for a ligature).
Configurations

Configuration 1 (hide)

OR cpe:2.3:a:artifex:ghostscript:9.51:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:artifex:ghostscript:9.52:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:artifex:ghostscript:9.52.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:artifex:ghostscript:9.53.0:rc1:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:artifex:ghostscript:9.53.0:rc2:*:*:*:*:*:*

History

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Information

Published : 2024-02-04 18:16

Updated : 2024-03-04 23:04


NVD link : CVE-2020-36773

Mitre link : CVE-2020-36773

CVE.ORG link : CVE-2020-36773


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Products Affected

artifex

  • ghostscript
CWE
CWE-416

Use After Free

CWE-787

Out-of-bounds Write