4.3
CVSSv2

CVE-2018-16542

Published: 05/09/2018 Updated: 07/11/2023
CVSS v2 Base Score: 4.3 | Impact Score: 2.9 | Exploitability Score: 8.6
CVSS v3 Base Score: 5.5 | Impact Score: 3.6 | Exploitability Score: 1.8
VMScore: 383
Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Vulnerability Summary

In Artifex Ghostscript prior to 9.24, attackers able to supply crafted PostScript files could use insufficient interpreter stack-size checking during error handling to crash the interpreter.

Vulnerability Trend

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artifex ghostscript

redhat enterprise linux desktop 7.0

redhat enterprise linux workstation 7.0

redhat enterprise linux 7.0

redhat enterprise linux server 7.0

redhat enterprise linux server eus 7.5

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

Vendor Advisories

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 ...
It was discovered that ghostscript did not properly handle certain stack overflow error conditions 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 ...