CVEvulnerability
CVE-2018-19478
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2019-01-02
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 4.3 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-20
Description
In Artifex Ghostscript before 9.26, a carefully crafted PDF file can trigger an extremely long running computation when parsing the file.
Affected configurations
• artifex ghostscript (< 9.26)
• debian debian linux 8.0
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-20 Improper Input Validation weakness
References
- http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=0a7e5a1c309fa0911b892fa40996a7d55d90bace git.ghostscript.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/106445 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=699856 Issue Tracking, Permissions Required, Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1655607 Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/12/msg00019.html Third Party Advisory
- https://www.ghostscript.com/doc/9.26/History9.htm Release Notes
- http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=0a7e5a1c309fa0911b892fa40996a7d55d90bace git.ghostscript.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/106445 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=699856 Issue Tracking, Permissions Required, Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1655607 Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/12/msg00019.html Third Party Advisory
- https://www.ghostscript.com/doc/9.26/History9.htm Release Notes