Out-of-Bounds Affecting ghostscript-devel package, versions <9.23-3.3.1


Severity

Recommended
medium

Based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
2.91% (91st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES150-GHOSTSCRIPTDEVEL-2763994
  • published14 Apr 2022
  • disclosed5 Jul 2018

Introduced: 5 Jul 2018

CVE-2018-10194  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-119  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:15.0 ghostscript-devel to version 9.23-3.3.1 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.

The set_text_distance function in devices/vector/gdevpdts.c in the pdfwrite component in Artifex Ghostscript through 9.22 does not prevent overflows in text-positioning calculation, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted PDF document.