CVE-2021-45949

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).

Score

CVSS 3.1 5.5 Medium

Status

Modified - cve@mitre.org

Published

2022-01-01

Last modified

2026-10-08

Weaknesses

CWE-122, CWE-787

Affected products

• Ghostscript (Artifex)
• Debian Linux (Debian)

References

• https://github.com/google/oss-fuzz-vulns/blob/main/vulns/ghostscript/OSV-2021-803.yaml
• https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=34675
• https://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=2a3129365d3bc0d4a41f107ef175920d1505d1f7
• https://www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5038
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/01/msg00006.html