title: Ghostscript: incomplete fix for cve-2020-16305
description: A flaw was found in ghostscript. The fix for CVE-2020-16305 in ghostscript was not included in RHSA-2021:1852-06 advisory as it was claimed to be. This issue only affects the ghostscript package as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.
problem types: Out-of-bounds Read
affected:
{
product: ghostscript
vendor: n/a
versions:
version: 9.51, status: unaffected
}
{
product: ghostscript
vendor: n/a
defaultStatus: affected
}
{
vendor: Red Hat
product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
collectionURL: https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/
packageName: ghostscript
defaultStatus: affected
versions:
version: 0:9.27-11.el8, lessThan: *, versionType: rpm, status: unaffected
cpe: [cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:8::crb, cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:8::appstream]
}
{
vendor: Red Hat
product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
collectionURL: https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/
packageName: ghostscript
defaultStatus: unaffected
cpes: cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6
}
{
vendor: Red Hat
product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
collectionURL: https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/
packageName: ghostscript
defaultStatus: unaffected
cpes: cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7
}
{
vendor: Red Hat
product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
collectionURL: https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/
packageName: gimp:flatpak/ghostscript
defaultStatus: affected
cpes: cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8
}
{
vendor: Red Hat
product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9
collectionURL: https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/
packageName: ghostscript
defaultStatus: unaffected
cpes: cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9
}
{
product: Fedora
vendor: Fedora
collectionURL: https://packages.fedoraproject.org/
packageName: ghostscript
defaultStatus: unaffected
}
metrics:
other: [
content: {'value': 'Low', 'namespace': 'https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/'}
type: Red Hat severity rating
]