Missing Initialization of a Variable Affecting ghostscript-cups package, versions <0:9.07-31.el7_6.6


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.6% (79th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL7-GHOSTSCRIPTCUPS-1504929
  • published26 Jul 2021
  • disclosed6 Sept 2018

Introduced: 6 Sep 2018

CVE-2018-15911  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-456  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade RHEL:7 ghostscript-cups to version 0:9.07-31.el7_6.6 or higher.
This issue was patched in RHSA-2018:3834.

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 RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL: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.