CVE-2020-16295

MEDIUM 5.5CVE-2020-16295 · Published 13/08/2020 · updated 17/06/2026

In short

CVE-2020-16295 is a MEDIUM (CVSS 5.5) vulnerability affecting ghostscript (artifex).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 1.8%, higher than 78.2% of all vulnerabilities.
Fix: update to 9.52 or later.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
ghostscript artifex	`< 9.52`	`9.52`

Description

A null pointer dereference vulnerability in clj_media_size() in devices/gdevclj.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.

References

git.ghostscript.com
bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi · Exploit
lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/08/msg00032.html · Mailing List
security.gentoo.org/glsa/202008-20 · Third Party Advisory
usn.ubuntu.com/4469-1 · Third Party Advisory
debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4748 · Third Party Advisory

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Package

Affected versions

Patched versions

ghostscript

artifex

< 9.52

9.52

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