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CVSSv2

CVE-2018-16513

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
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Vulnerability Summary

In Artifex Ghostscript prior to 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.

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artifex ghostscript

debian debian linux 8.0

canonical ubuntu linux 16.04

canonical ubuntu linux 14.04

debian debian linux 9.0

canonical ubuntu linux 18.04

artifex gpl ghostscript

pulsesecure pulse connect secure

Vendor Advisories

Ubuntu Security Notice: ghostscript vulnerabilities
Several security issues were fixed in Ghostscript ...
Amazon Linux 2: ALAS2-2018-1088
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 ...
Red Hat: CVE-2018-16513
It was discovered that the ghostscript did not properly validate the operands passed to the setcolor function 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 ...

References

CWE-704https://www.artifex.com/news/ghostscript-security-resolved/https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=699655https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4288https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/09/msg00015.htmlhttps://usn.ubuntu.com/3768-1/https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201811-12https://kb.pulsesecure.net/articles/Pulse_Security_Advisories/SA44101http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=b326a71659b7837d3acde954b18bda1a6f5e9498https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K22141757?utm_source=f5support&%3Butm_medium=RSShttps://usn.ubuntu.com/3768-1/https://nvd.nist.gov
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