Vulnerability CVE-2020-16307
Published: 2020-08-13

Description:
A null pointer dereference vulnerability in devices/vector/gdevtxtw.c and psi/zbfont.c of Artifex Software GhostScript v9.50 allows a remote attacker to cause a denial of service via a crafted postscript file. This is fixed in v9.51.

Type:

CWE-476

 (NULL Pointer Dereference)

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
4.3/10
2.9/10
8.6/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Medium
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
None
None
Partial
Affected software
Artifex -> Ghostscript 

 References:
http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git;a=commitdiff;h=407c98a38c3a6ac1681144ed45cc2f4fc374c91f
https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=701822
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/08/msg00032.html
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