Bug 2235001 (CVE-2020-21710)

Summary: CVE-2020-21710 ghostscript: Divide by zero in eps_print_page in gdevepsn.c
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: Pedro Sampaio <psampaio>
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GhostScript is vulnerable to divide by zero issue in function eps_print_page in gdevepsn.c allows remote attacker to cause a denial of service via crafted PDF file.
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Bug Depends On: 2235004, 2235005, 2235009, 2235268    
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Description Pedro Sampaio 2023-08-25 21:22:51 UTC
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.

References:

https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=701843
https://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git;a=commit;h=4e713293de84b689c4ab358f3e110ea54aa81925

Comment 3 TEJ RATHI 2023-08-28 08:54:19 UTC
Created ghostscript tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 2235268]

Comment 4 Michael J Gruber 2023-12-09 16:26:34 UTC
This bug was fixed in gs 9.51, and we have had gs 9.52 in Fedora 33 3 years ago already. What is the point of filing this against fedora_all now in 2023? Just for churns?

Comment 6 errata-xmlrpc 2024-05-22 09:23:22 UTC
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8

Via RHSA-2024:2966 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:2966