Incorrect Type Conversion or Cast Affecting ghostscript package, versions <9.18~dfsg~0-0ubuntu2.9
Threat Intelligence
EPSS
3.02% (87th percentile)
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- published25 Sept 2018
- disclosed27 Aug 2018
Introduced: 27 Aug 2018
CVE-2018-15909 (opens in a new tab)Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) are common identifiers for publicly known security vulnerabilities
Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE) is a category system for software weaknesses
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, a type confusion using the .shfill operator could be used by attackers able to supply crafted PostScript files to crash the interpreter or potentially execute code.
References
- http://people.ubuntu.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2018-15909
- https://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/332928
- https://kb.pulsesecure.net/articles/Pulse_Security_Advisories/SA44101
- https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K24803507?utm_source=f5support&utm_medium=RSS
- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-15909
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/09/msg00015.html
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-15909
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201811-12
- http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git;a=commit;h=0b6cd1918e1ec4ffd087400a754a845180a4522b
- http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git;a=commit;h=e01e77a36cbb2e0277bc3a63852244bec41be0f6
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3650
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/105178
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3768-1/
- http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=0b6cd1918e1ec4ffd087400a754a845180a4522b
- http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=e01e77a36cbb2e0277bc3a63852244bec41be0f6
- https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K24803507?utm_source=f5support&%3Butm_medium=RSS