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  "schema_version": "1.4.0",
  "id": "GHSA-jxfm-c4r3-w3f8",
  "modified": "2025-03-24T21:30:25Z",
  "published": "2022-05-24T17:25:35Z",
  "aliases": [
    "CVE-2020-17538"
  ],
  "details": "A buffer overflow vulnerability in GetNumSameData() in contrib/lips4/gdevlips.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.",
  "severity": [
    {
      "type": "CVSS_V3",
      "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H"
    }
  ],
  "affected": [],
  "references": [
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      "type": "ADVISORY",
      "url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-17538"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=701792"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://cgit.ghostscript.com/cgi-bin/cgit.cgi/ghostpdl.git/tree/contrib/lips4/gdevlips.c?h=ghostscript-9.18#n148"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=9f39ed4a92578a020ae10459643e1fe72573d134"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git;a=commit;h=9f39ed4a92578a020ae10459643e1fe72573d134"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/08/msg00032.html"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202008-20"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://usn.ubuntu.com/4469-1"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4748"
    }
  ],
  "database_specific": {
    "cwe_ids": [
      "CWE-787"
    ],
    "severity": "MODERATE",
    "github_reviewed": false,
    "github_reviewed_at": null,
    "nvd_published_at": "2020-08-13T03:15:00Z"
  }
}