CVEvulnerability
CVE-2018-16513
7.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2018-09-05
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 6.8 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-704
Description
In Artifex Ghostscript before 9.24, attackers able to supply crafted PostScript files could use a type confusion in the setcolor function to crash the interpreter or possibly have unspecified other impact.
Affected configurations
• artifex ghostscript (< 9.24)
• canonical ubuntu linux 14.04
• canonical ubuntu linux 16.04
• canonical ubuntu linux 18.04
• debian debian linux 8.0
• debian debian linux 9.0
• artifex gpl ghostscript (< 9.26)
• pulsesecure pulse connect secure (>= 8.2r1.0 < 8.2r12.1)
• pulsesecure pulse connect secure (>= 8.3r1 < 8.3r7.1)
• pulsesecure pulse connect secure (>= 9.0r1 < 9.0r3.4)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-704 Incorrect Type Conversion or Cast weakness
References
- http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=b326a71659b7837d3acde954b18bda1a6f5e9498 git.ghostscript.com
- https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=699655 Issue Tracking, Permissions Required, Vendor Advisory
- https://kb.pulsesecure.net/articles/Pulse_Security_Advisories/SA44101 Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/09/msg00015.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201811-12 Third Party Advisory
- https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K22141757?utm_source=f5support&%3Butm_medium=RSS support.f5.com
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3768-1/ Third Party Advisory
- https://www.artifex.com/news/ghostscript-security-resolved/ Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4288 Third Party Advisory
- http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=b326a71659b7837d3acde954b18bda1a6f5e9498 git.ghostscript.com
- https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=699655 Issue Tracking, Permissions Required, Vendor Advisory
- https://kb.pulsesecure.net/articles/Pulse_Security_Advisories/SA44101 Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/09/msg00015.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201811-12 Third Party Advisory
- https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K22141757?utm_source=f5support&%3Butm_medium=RSS support.f5.com
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3768-1/ Third Party Advisory
- https://www.artifex.com/news/ghostscript-security-resolved/ Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4288 Third Party Advisory