CVE-2020-27792: Artifex Ghostscript

High severity, CVSS 7.1. EPSS: 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

A heap-based buffer overwrite vulnerability was found in GhostScript's lp8000_print_page() function in the gdevlp8k.c file. This flaw allows an attacker to trick a user into opening a crafted PDF file, triggering the heap buffer overflow that could lead to memory corruption or a denial of service.

Affected products

• Artifex Ghostscript: up to and including 9.50
• Debian Debian Linux: version 10.0 only

Published 2022-08-19. Last modified 2026-06-17.