Published: 05/09/2018 Updated: 07/11/2023

CVSS v2 Base Score: 6.8 | Impact Score: 6.4 | Exploitability Score: 8.6

CVSS v3 Base Score: 7.8 | Impact Score: 5.9 | Exploitability Score: 1.8

VMScore: 605

Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

An issue exists in Artifex Ghostscript prior to 9.24. A type confusion in "ztype" could be used by remote attackers able to supply crafted PostScript to crash the interpreter or possibly have unspecified other impact.

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Synopsis Important: ghostscript security update Type/Severity Security Advisory: Important Topic An update for ghostscript is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) bas ...

Several security issues were fixed in Ghostscript ...

It was discovered that the ghostscript shfill operator did not properly validate certain types An attacker could possibly exploit this to bypass the -dSAFER protection and crash ghostscript or, possibly, execute arbitrary code in the ghostscript context via a specially crafted PostScript document(CVE-2018-15909) An issue was discovered in Artife ...

CWE-704 https://www.artifex.com/news/ghostscript-security-resolved/http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2018/q3/182 https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=699659 https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4288 https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/09/msg00015.html https://usn.ubuntu.com/3768-1/https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201811-12 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3650 http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=0edd3d6c634a577db261615a9dc2719bca7f6e01 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3650 https://nvd.nist.gov https://usn.ubuntu.com/3768-1/

CVE-2018-16511

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