Incorrect Type Conversion or Cast Affecting ghostscript package, versions <9.24-r0


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.45% (76th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-ALPINE320-GHOSTSCRIPT-7009097
  • published23 May 2024
  • disclosed27 Aug 2018

Introduced: 27 Aug 2018

CVE-2018-15909  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-704  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Alpine:3.20 ghostscript to version 9.24-r0 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream ghostscript package and not the ghostscript package as distributed by Alpine. See How to fix? for Alpine:3.20 relevant fixed versions and status.

In Artifex Ghostscript 9.23 before 2018-08-24, a type confusion using the .shfill operator could be used by attackers able to supply crafted PostScript files to crash the interpreter or potentially execute code.