Out-of-Bounds Affecting ghostscript-devel package, versions <9.25-3.6.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

Based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.41% (74th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES150-GHOSTSCRIPTDEVEL-2760541
  • published14 Apr 2022
  • disclosed2 Oct 2018

Introduced: 2 Oct 2018

CVE-2018-16510  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-119  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:15.0 ghostscript-devel to version 9.25-3.6.1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream ghostscript-devel package and not the ghostscript-devel package as distributed by SLES. See How to fix? for SLES:15.0 relevant fixed versions and status.

An issue was discovered in Artifex Ghostscript before 9.24. Incorrect exec stack handling in the "CS" and "SC" PDF primitives could be used by remote attackers able to supply crafted PDFs to crash the interpreter or possibly have unspecified other impact.