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Improper Input Validation Affecting ghostscript-tools-dvipdf package, versions *

Severity

 Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS
    0.22% (61st percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-RHEL8-GHOSTSCRIPTTOOLSDVIPDF-1328073
  • published 26 Jul 2021
  • disclosed 20 Nov 2018
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Introduced: 20 Nov 2018

CVE-2018-19478 Open this link in a new tab
CWE-20 Open this link in a new tab

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for RHEL:8 ghostscript-tools-dvipdf.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream ghostscript-tools-dvipdf package and not the ghostscript-tools-dvipdf package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:8 relevant fixed versions and status.

In Artifex Ghostscript before 9.26, a carefully crafted PDF file can trigger an extremely long running computation when parsing the file.