Access of Resource Using Incompatible Type ('Type Confusion') Affecting ghostscript-cups package, versions <0:9.07-31.el7_6.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.57% (78th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL7-GHOSTSCRIPTCUPS-4885316
  • published26 Jul 2021
  • disclosed28 Aug 2018

Introduced: 28 Aug 2018

CVE-2018-15909  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-843  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade RHEL:7 ghostscript-cups to version 0:9.07-31.el7_6.1 or higher.
This issue was patched in RHSA-2018:3650.

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, a type confusion using the .shfill operator could be used by attackers able to supply crafted PostScript files to crash the interpreter or potentially execute code.