CVE-2018-16513

high

Description

In Artifex Ghostscript before 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.

References

http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git;a=commit;h=b326a71659b7837d3acde954b18bda1a6f5e9498

https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=699655

https://kb.pulsesecure.net/articles/Pulse_Security_Advisories/SA44101

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

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

https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K22141757?utm_source=f5support&utm_medium=RSS

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

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

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

Details

Source: MITRE

Published: 2018-09-05

Updated: 2019-11-05

Type: CWE-704

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 6.8

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

Impact Score: 6.4

Exploitability Score: 8.6

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

Impact Score: 5.9

Exploitability Score: 1.8

Severity: HIGH