Use of Uninitialized Resource Affecting ghostscript package, versions <9.18~dfsg~0-0ubuntu2.9


Severity

Recommended
medium

Based on Ubuntu security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.42% (75th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1604-GHOSTSCRIPT-381993
  • published25 Sept 2018
  • disclosed28 Aug 2018

Introduced: 28 Aug 2018

CVE-2018-15911  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-908  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Ubuntu:16.04 ghostscript to version 9.18dfsg0-0ubuntu2.9 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream ghostscript package and not the ghostscript package as distributed by Ubuntu. See How to fix? for Ubuntu:16.04 relevant fixed versions and status.

In Artifex Ghostscript 9.23 before 2018-08-24, attackers able to supply crafted PostScript could use uninitialized memory access in the aesdecode operator to crash the interpreter or potentially execute code.