Out-of-bounds Write Affecting ghostscript-cups package, versions <0:9.07-29.el7_5.2


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.16% (54th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL7-GHOSTSCRIPTCUPS-4862268
  • published26 Jul 2021
  • disclosed6 Sept 2018

Introduced: 6 Sep 2018

CVE-2018-16542  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-787  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade RHEL:7 ghostscript-cups to version 0:9.07-29.el7_5.2 or higher.
This issue was patched in RHSA-2018:2918.

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 before 9.24, attackers able to supply crafted PostScript files could use insufficient interpreter stack-size checking during error handling to crash the interpreter.