CVEvulnerability
CVE-2018-16585
7.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2018-09-06
- 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-119
Description
An issue was discovered in Artifex Ghostscript before 9.24. The .setdistillerkeys PostScript command is accepted even though it is not intended for use during document processing (e.g., after the startup phase). This leads to memory corruption, allowing remote attackers able to supply crafted PostScript to crash the interpreter or possibly have unspecified other impact. Note: A reputable source believes that the CVE is potentially a duplicate of CVE-2018-15910 as explained in Red Hat bugzilla (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1626193)
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
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-119 Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer weakness
References
- http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=1497d65039885a52b598b137dd8622bd4672f9be git.ghostscript.com
- http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=971472c83a345a16dac9f90f91258bb22dd77f22 git.ghostscript.com
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1626193 bugzilla.redhat.com
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/09/msg00015.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://seclists.org/oss-sec/2018/q3/182 Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201811-12 Third Party Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3768-1/ Third Party Advisory
- https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4288 Third Party Advisory
- http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=1497d65039885a52b598b137dd8622bd4672f9be git.ghostscript.com
- http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=971472c83a345a16dac9f90f91258bb22dd77f22 git.ghostscript.com
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1626193 bugzilla.redhat.com
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/09/msg00015.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://seclists.org/oss-sec/2018/q3/182 Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201811-12 Third Party Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3768-1/ Third Party Advisory
- https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4288 Third Party Advisory