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

In Artifex Ghostscript prior to 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.

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redhat enterprise linux server tus 7.6
redhat enterprise linux server eus 7.6
redhat enterprise linux server aus 7.6
redhat openshift container platform 3.11
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debian debian linux 8.0
debian debian linux 9.0
canonical ubuntu linux 16.04
canonical ubuntu linux 14.04
canonical ubuntu linux 18.04

Synopsis Important: ghostscript security and bug fix 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 Syste ...

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 ...

It was discovered that the ghostscript PDF14 compositor did not properly handle the copying of a device 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 ...

CWE-416 https://www.artifex.com/news/ghostscript-security-resolved/https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=699661 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-2019:0229 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2019:0327 http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=c432131c3fdb2143e148e8ba88555f7f7a63b25e https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:0229 https://nvd.nist.gov https://usn.ubuntu.com/3768-1/

CVE-2018-16540

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