CVEvulnerability
CVE-2018-16540
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-416
Description
In Artifex Ghostscript before 9.24, attackers able to supply crafted PostScript files to the builtin PDF14 converter could use a use-after-free in copydevice handling to crash the interpreter or possibly have unspecified other impact.
Affected configurations
• artifex ghostscript (< 9.24)
• redhat openshift container platform 3.11
• redhat enterprise linux 7.0
• redhat enterprise linux desktop 7.0
• redhat enterprise linux server 7.0
• redhat enterprise linux server 7.6
• redhat enterprise linux server aus 7.6
• redhat enterprise linux server eus 7.5
• redhat enterprise linux server eus 7.6
• redhat enterprise linux server tus 7.6
• redhat enterprise linux workstation 7.0
• debian debian linux 8.0
• debian debian linux 9.0
• canonical ubuntu linux 14.04
• canonical ubuntu linux 16.04
• canonical ubuntu linux 18.04
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-416 Use After Free weakness
References
- http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=c432131c3fdb2143e148e8ba88555f7f7a63b25e git.ghostscript.com
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2019:0327 Third Party Advisory
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:0229 Third Party Advisory
- https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=699661 Issue Tracking, Permissions Required, Vendor 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://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=c432131c3fdb2143e148e8ba88555f7f7a63b25e git.ghostscript.com
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2019:0327 Third Party Advisory
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:0229 Third Party Advisory
- https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=699661 Issue Tracking, Permissions Required, Vendor 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://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