CVE-2020-36773

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CVSS v3

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CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

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Description

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).

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

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OS impact

OS	Version	Status	Fixed in
sles		affected
debian	bookworm	fixed	`9.53.0~dfsg-1`
debian	bullseye	fixed	`9.53.0~dfsg-1`
debian	forky	fixed	`9.53.0~dfsg-1`
debian	sid	fixed	`9.53.0~dfsg-1`
debian	trixie	fixed	`9.53.0~dfsg-1`

References

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.