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CVE-2021-45949

Date: December 31, 2021

Ghostscript GhostPDL 9.50 through 9.54.0 has a heap-based buffer overflow in sampled_data_finish (called from sampled_data_continue and interp).

Language: C

Severity Score

5.5

Related Resources (11)

Url: https://github.com/google/oss-fuzz-vulns/blob/main/vulns/ghostscript/OSV-2021-803.yaml

Url: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2021-45949

Url: https://www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5038

Url: https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-45949

Url: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=34675

Url: https://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=2a3129365d3bc0d4a41f107ef175920d1505d1f7

Url: https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2021-45949

Url: https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/01/msg00006.html

Url: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-45949

Url: https://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git;a=commit;h=2a3129365d3bc0d4a41f107ef175920d1505d1f7

Url: https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2021-45949

Severity Score

5.5

Weakness Type (CWE)

Out-of-bounds Write

CWE-787

CVSS v3.1

Base Score:	5.5
Attack Vector (AV):	LOCAL
Attack Complexity (AC):	LOW
Privileges Required (PR):	NONE
User Interaction (UI):	REQUIRED
Scope (S):	UNCHANGED
Confidentiality (C):	NONE
Integrity (I):	NONE
Availability (A):	HIGH

CVSS v2

Base Score:	4.3
Access Vector (AV):	NETWORK
Access Complexity (AC):	MEDIUM
Authentication (AU):	NONE
Confidentiality (C):	NONE
Integrity (I):	NONE
Availability (A):	PARTIAL
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