INFSA-2024:2966: Ghostscript security update

Information about definition

Identificator: INFSA-2024:2966

Type: security

Release date: 2024-08-23 19:58:36 UTC

Information about package

The Ghostscript suite contains utilities for rendering PostScript and PDF documents. Ghostscript translates PostScript code to common bitmap formats so that the code can be displayed or printed.

Vulnerabilities description

  • CVE-2020-21710

    A divide by zero issue discovered in eps_print_page in gdevepsn.c in Artifex Software GhostScript 9.50 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via opening of crafted PDF file.

Severity level

CVE Score CVSS 2.0 Score CVSS 3.x Score CVSS 4.0
no information 6.5 no information
Critical, important, moderate, low

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