UBUNTU-CVE-2020-27841

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    UBUNTU-CVE-2020-27841

    Published: 5 Jan 2021Last Modified: 17 Oct 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2020-27841
    Aliases:
    USN-4685-1
    USN-4686-1
    USN-4880-1

    Summary:

    Details: There's a flaw in openjpeg in versions prior to 2.4.0 in src/lib/openjp2/pi.c. When an attacker is able to provide crafted input to be processed by the openjpeg encoder, this could cause an out-of-bounds read. The greatest impact from this flaw is to application availability.

    References: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2020-27841, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-4685-1, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-4686-1, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-4880-1, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-5952-1, https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-27841

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: ghostscript

    Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/ghostscript?arch=source&distro=xenial

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -9.26~dfsg+0-0ubuntu0.16.04.14

    Affected versions

    9.16~dfsg~0-0ubuntu3

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
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