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Artifex Ghostscript before 9.53.0 has an out-of-bounds write and use-after-free in devices/vector/gdevtxtw.c (for txtwrite) because a single character code in a PDF document can map to more than one Unicode code point (e.g., for a ligature).

PUBLISHED Reserved 2024-02-04 | Published 2024-02-04 | Updated 2025-05-22 | Assigner mitre

References

bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=702229

git.ghostscript.com/...bd787defa071c96289b7da9397f673fddb874

bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1177922

github.com/...oftware/ghostpdl-downloads/releases/tag/gs9530

cve.org (CVE-2020-36773)

nvd.nist.gov (CVE-2020-36773)

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