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CVE-2018-16511

high

Description

An issue was discovered in Artifex Ghostscript before 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.

References

https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4288

https://usn.ubuntu.com/3768-1/

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201811-12

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/09/msg00015.html

https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=699659

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3650

http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2018/q3/182

https://www.artifex.com/news/ghostscript-security-resolved/

http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=0edd3d6c634a577db261615a9dc2719bca7f6e01

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2018-09-05

Updated: 2024-11-21

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 6.8

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Severity: High

EPSS

EPSS: 0.01189