Missing Initialization of a Variable Affecting ghostscript-cups package, versions <0:9.07-31.el7_6.6
Threat Intelligence
EPSS
0.42% (75th
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-CENTOS7-GHOSTSCRIPTCUPS-2132493
- published 26 Jul 2021
- disclosed 6 Sep 2018
Introduced: 6 Sep 2018
CVE-2018-15911 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade Centos:7 ghostscript-cups to version 0:9.07-31.el7_6.6 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 9.23 before 2018-08-24, attackers able to supply crafted PostScript could use uninitialized memory access in the aesdecode operator to crash the interpreter or potentially execute code.
References
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/105122
- https://kb.pulsesecure.net/articles/Pulse_Security_Advisories/SA44101
- https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K22141757?utm_source=f5support&utm_medium=RSS
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-15911
- 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=8e9ce5016db968b40e4ec255a3005f2786cce45f
- https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=699665
- https://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/332928
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/09/msg00015.html
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3834
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3768-1/
- http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=8e9ce5016db968b40e4ec255a3005f2786cce45f
- https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K22141757?utm_source=f5support&%3Butm_medium=RSS