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  "cveId": "CVE-2020-27792",
  "url": "https://patchblox.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-27792",
  "summary": "CVE-2020-27792 is fixed in 11 products on 1 platform, first by ghostscript 9.26~dfsg\u002B0-0ubuntu0.18.04.17, released August 19, 2022. It is not reported as exploited. Patch Radar priority: High.",
  "title": "ghostscript: The Ghostscript suite contains utilities for rendering PostScript and PDF documents",
  "description": "The Ghostscript suite contains utilities for rendering PostScript and PDF documents. Ghostscript translates PostScript code to common bitmap formats so that the code can be displayed or printed.\n\nSecurity Fix(es):\n\n* ghostscript: heap buffer over write vulnerability in GhostScript\u0027s lp8000_print_page() in gdevlp8k.c (CVE-2020-27792)\n\n* ghostscript: dangling pointer in gdev_prn_open_printer_seekable() (CVE-2023-46751)\n\n* ghostscript: Buffer Overflow in Ghostscript PDF XRef Stream Handling (CVE-2024-46952)\n\n* ghostscript: Arbitrary Code Execution in Artifex Ghostscript Pattern Color Space (CVE-2024-46951)\n\n* ghostscript: Directory Traversal in Ghostscript via Overlong UTF-8 Encoding (CVE-2024-46954)\n\n* ghostscript: Path Traversal and Code Execution via Integer Overflow in Ghostscript (CVE-2024-46953)\n\n* ghostscript: Out-of-Bounds Data Access in Ghostscript Leads to Arbitrary Code Execution (CVE-2024-46956)\n\nFor more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.",
  "published": "2022-08-19T16:15:00Z",
  "severity": "Moderate",
  "cvss": 7.8,
  "cvssVector": "CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H",
  "epss": 0.00468,
  "epssPercentile": 0.40715,
  "priority": "High",
  "priorityTier": 3,
  "exploited": false,
  "vendorExploited": false,
  "disclosed": false,
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