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Incorrect Type Conversion or Cast 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
1.15% (85th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES150-GHOSTSCRIPTDEVEL-2761115
  • published14 Apr 2022
  • disclosed2 Oct 2018
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Introduced: 2 Oct 2018

CVE-2018-16511  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-704  (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. A type confusion in "ztype" could be used by remote attackers able to supply crafted PostScript to crash the interpreter or possibly have unspecified other impact.