Incorrect Type Conversion or Cast Affecting ghostscript-cups package, versions <0:9.07-31.el7_6.1
Threat Intelligence
EPSS
0.68% (81st
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-CENTOS7-GHOSTSCRIPTCUPS-2131967
- published 26 Jul 2021
- disclosed 24 Aug 2018
Introduced: 24 Aug 2018
CVE-2018-16511 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade Centos:7 ghostscript-cups to version 0:9.07-31.el7_6.1 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.
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://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-16511
- 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=0edd3d6c634a577db261615a9dc2719bca7f6e01
- https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=699659
- http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2018/q3/182
- https://www.artifex.com/news/ghostscript-security-resolved/
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/09/msg00015.html
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3650
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3768-1/
- http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=0edd3d6c634a577db261615a9dc2719bca7f6e01