Out-of-bounds Write Affecting ghostscript-cups package, versions <0:9.07-29.el7_5.2
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EPSS
0.19% (57th
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-CENTOS7-GHOSTSCRIPTCUPS-2105350
- published 26 Jul 2021
- disclosed 6 Sep 2018
Introduced: 6 Sep 2018
CVE-2018-16542 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade Centos:7 ghostscript-cups to version 0:9.07-29.el7_5.2 or higher.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream ghostscript-cups package and not the ghostscript-cups package as distributed by Centos.
See How to fix? for Centos:7 relevant fixed versions and status.
In Artifex Ghostscript before 9.24, attackers able to supply crafted PostScript files could use insufficient interpreter stack-size checking during error handling to crash the interpreter.
References
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/105337
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-16542
- https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4288
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201811-12
- http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git;a=commit;h=b575e1ec42cc86f6a58c603f2a88fcc2af699cc8
- https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=699668
- http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2018/q3/182
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/09/msg00015.html
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2918
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3768-1/
- http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=b575e1ec42cc86f6a58c603f2a88fcc2af699cc8